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Wed, 20 May 2026 07:00:00 -0700

Vacation and why Americans take so littleNote: This episode originally ran in 2023. Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is […]

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Fri, 15 May 2026 19:59:43 -0700

Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed IndependenceIf you have a credit card, hope to buy a house, or just want stable grocery prices – let’s talk about the fut […]

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Wed, 13 May 2026 22:03:21 -0700

The secret meeting that launched OPECRecently, a listener wrote in with a question about OPEC and oil prices. She was prepping for a camping trip… thinking a […]

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Sat, 09 May 2026 02:26:37 -0700

Diary of a WNBA negotiatorToday the WNBA season tips off, but Dallas Wings veteran forward Alysha Clark has already won a high-stakes competition. She – and a N […]

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Wed, 06 May 2026 07:00:00 -0700

How we got free agents in baseballCurt Flood was the best center fielder in baseball and one of the game’s highest paid players. He took the St. Louis Cardinals t […]

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Sat, 02 May 2026 00:24:38 -0700

How to make a BOOK into a bestsellerIn the world of commercial publishing, there are few crowning achievements more coveted than a place on the New York Times […]

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Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:13:51 -0700

Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flightsIt’s way more than fuel costs that pushed Spirit Airlines to the brink of liquidation and led President Trump to m […]

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Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:00:00 -0700

Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to ChinaAt one point in history, one U.S. company monopolized the rare earths industry. Then China took over the […]

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Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0700

Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobsWe talk with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and Chief Economist at Redfin Daryl Fairweather about two of the biggest […]

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Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:00:00 -0700

Do prediction market bettors make anything better?Have you noticed a lot of young people getting into antenna-maxxing as alpha? Or, maybe searching for any bit of […]

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Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:06:36 -0700

How to get through the Strait of HormuzThe United States has been at war with Iran since February 28th. And for a month and a half, Iran’s main leverage over t […]

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Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:30:43 -0700

BOOKstore EconomicsHow do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a […]

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Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0700

A pro-worker experiment in private equityLive event info and tickets here. If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a […]

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Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:24:15 -0700

Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflationLive event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their […]

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Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:51:50 -0700

Dark times for Cuba’s economic experimentLive event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic […]

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Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:59:58 -0700

The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn’t stopLIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you […]

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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:26:04 -0700

Our BOOK vs. the global supply chainWhen you come across a book at a yard sale or a bookstore, you might pay more attention to the words between the covers than […]

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Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:42:03 -0700

Inside a BOOK auctionIn the age of TikTok and Polymarket, it can be easy to overlook the humble book. But books are one of the most influential technologies ever […]

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Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

The little pet fish that saved a town in the AmazonThe cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue […]

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Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0700

Chef vs. RobotRobby the chef has lots of endearing qualities. He can make over 5000 dishes, he’s a consistent cook, and he’s never late for work. But he’s not a […]

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Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

The laws of the office revisitedLive event info and tickets here. If something is going wrong in your workplace, there’s probably a law that explains why. M […]

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Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:15:00 -0700

Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problemWhat do we want from sports? The very best athletes competing as hard as they know how, putting all their effort and […]

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Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:58:15 -0700

The Business of Heated RivalryHeated Rivalry, the steamy hockey romance show, was made for about $2 million per episode. That is remarkably cheap for an […]

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Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:05:00 -0700

Don’t hate the replicator, hate the gameThe world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. […]

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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0700

The ICE hiring boomLive event info and tickets here. ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what […]

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Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:09:00 -0700

The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump’s tariffs. Now what?Live event info and tickets here. The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that […]

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Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:43:12 -0700

How to get what Greenland has, with permissionBook tour and ticket info here. Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell G […]

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Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:23:30 -0700

Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 ValentinesBook tour event details and ticket info here. An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, […]

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Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0700

The Invention InventionBook tour tickets and details here. Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and […]

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Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:16:10 -0700

Iran, protests, and sanctionsBook tour tickets and details here. The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this […]

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Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:00:00 -0700

Riding with the repo man (update)Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their […]

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Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:28:14 -0700

Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?Book tour dates and ticket info here. Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about […]

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Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:45:17 -0700

Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced […]

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Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:10:35 -0700

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 […]

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Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:48:46 -0700

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 […]

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Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:58:28 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:30:00 -0700

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 […]

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Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:03:46 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:38:35 -0700

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 […]

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Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:07:54 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:21:02 -0700

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 […]

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Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:05:16 -0700

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 […]

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Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:15:00 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:30:00 -0700

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 […]

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Sat, 20 Dec 2025 00:15:21 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:59:12 -0700

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 […]

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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:59:37 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0700

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 […]

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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:54:30 -0700

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 […]

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Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:00:00 -0700

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 […]