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Today on the show, how we got from mealy, nasty apples to apples that taste delicious. The story starts with a breeder who discovered a miracle apple. But discovering that apple wasn’t enough. To manage…

What happens when you take some of the most powerful people in America — federal judges — and teach them economics? We look at the swanky econ retreats that may have changed American law forever.…

Texas’s energy grid is largely disconnected from the rest of the U.S. That led to disastrous consequences last year when the state’s grid was overloaded during a winter storm. Back in the 1970s, one company…

We’re not in a recession, but why are the vibes feeling so off? We put the question to an economist and one expert on “vibes” and also hire a jazz band to take a pun…

Eddie Oygur is an Australian businessman who’s sold sheepskin ugg boots for years. But one day, he was hit with a lawsuit for breaking American trademark law. On today’s show — what’s in the name…

On today’s show – how your social circle is one of the strongest predictors of economic mobility and how pop music reflects the economy. Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney. To…

A practically brand new Lexus with a New Jersey inspection sticker lands on an auto body lot in Turkmenistan. How did it get there? To find out, we journey into the bizarro economy for misfit…

High gas prices have fueled speculation and investigations — is anyone raising prices and keeping prices high for profit? To find out, we break down the price of gas, piece by piece, to show you…

Productivity is our economic measure for how far our work goes, as individuals and as a society over all. It plays an important role in determining our quality of life, the prices of our goods…

Sometimes online shopping can feel a little unsavory. There are the listings that make you question if you’ll really be getting exactly what’s advertised. And there’s no worse feeling than paying for something and then…