Planet Money

Back in the 90s, Ivan Lozano Ortega was in charge of Bogota’s wildlife rescue center. And he kept getting calls from the airport to come deal with… frogs. Hundreds of brightly colored, poisonous frogs. Ivan…

The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped to prove or disprove conventional economic thinking. Take, for example, the bullwhip effect, the idea that the further away…

In 1978, a young man named Mike Shanks started a moving business in the north end of Seattle. It was just him and a truck — a pretty small operation. Things were going great. Then…

Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like “Can you read each other’s minds?” or “Can you feel each other’s pain?” Two of our Planet Money reporters are twins, and they have heard…

People come from all over the world to work in U.S. tech. And during the tech boom years, the industry relied heavily on foreign workers. This is how we built Silicon Valley – with great…

Innovation is crucial for game-changing advancements in society, whether it’s treatments for serious diseases, developments in AI technology, or rocket science. Today on the show, we’re airing two episodes from our daily economics show The…

In the early 90s, when a young economist named Michael Kremer finished his PhD, there had been a few economic studies based on randomized trials. But they were rare. In part because randomized trials –…

(Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.) This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had the second largest domestic opening of 2023, netting (or should we say webbing?) over $120 million in its opening…

It’s the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first episode of Planet Money written by AI. In Part 1 of this series, we taught AI how to…

In Part 1 of this series, AI proved that it could use real research and real interviews to write an original script for an episode of Planet Money. Our next task was to teach the…