A trip to the magic mushroom megachurchBook tour dates and ticket info here. Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the p […]

BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The […]

Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of PlentyVenezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most fam […]

How much money President Trump and his family have madeBefore President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorke […]

So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher a […]

How Black hair care grew Black powerThe Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro S […]

Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike a […]

Indicators of the Year, Past and Future2025 is finally over. It was a wild year for the U.S. economy. Tariffs transformed global trading, consumer sentiment hit […]

Why economists got free trade with China so wrongWith the year coming to a close, we’re sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025!  As U.S. tr […]

The Rest of the Story, 2025Most stories keep going even after we set down our microphones and the music fades up. That’s why, at the end of each year, we look b […]

The summer I turned binge-yOn the eve of Netflix shoveling a fourish-hour chunk of Stranger Things onto Christmas Day, we visit the past, present, and future of […]

What AI data centers are doing to your electric billAs a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire […]

PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 editionWelcome to the inaugural Planet Money Pop Culture Draft! In today’s episode (a Planet Money+ episode we’re releasing int […]

When Chicago pawned its parking metersIn 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property t […]

Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wearFrom nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most r […]

How hurricanes became a hot investmentA few years ago, the Jamaican government started making an unusual financial bet. It went to investors around the world […]

Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)Vote for us in NPR’s People’s Choice Awards: npr.org/peopleschoice  AI is already reshaping how people find work […]

Capitalism (Taylor’s Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-breaking. And it’s f […]

Saving lives with fewer dollarsGivewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is […]

The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending PuzzleWherever consumer sentiment goes, consumer spending usually goes too. They’re like buddies that do everything t […]