Planet Money

Complete archive

86 episodes, newest first

• Where all those weird new drinks are coming from
  2026-10-02
• Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?
  2026-09-30
• Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs
  2026-09-25
• Is our national debt finally too much? (update)
  2026-09-23
• The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything
  2026-09-18
• How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators)
  2026-09-16
• The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis
  2026-09-11
• Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation
  2026-09-09
• Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake
  2026-09-05
• Love in the time of Palantir
  2026-09-02
• Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus)
  2026-08-30
• Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified"
  2026-08-28
• The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)
  2026-08-26
• Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers
  2026-08-21
• Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)
  2026-08-19
• You bet your life insurance
  2026-08-14
• Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)
  2026-08-12
• Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?
  2026-08-07
• Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)
  2026-08-05
• What makes a toy go viral
  2026-07-31
• How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)
  2026-07-29
• Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)
  2026-07-24
• Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine
  2026-07-22
• New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
  2026-07-21
• Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?
  2026-07-17
• Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)
  2026-07-15
• Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal
  2026-07-10
• Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)
  2026-07-08
• How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)
  2026-07-03
• Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?
  2026-07-01
• We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?
  2026-06-26
• Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets
  2026-06-24
• The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough
  2026-06-19
• Can computer hackers get inside your mind?
  2026-06-17
• It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?
  2026-06-12
• Two indicators for lowering the rent
  2026-06-10
• Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?
  2026-06-05
• There's no business like dough business
  2026-06-03
• The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food
  2026-05-29
• The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes
  2026-05-27
• The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake
  2026-05-22
• Vacation and why Americans take so little
  2026-05-20
• Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence
  2026-05-15
• The secret meeting that launched OPEC
  2026-05-13
• Diary of a WNBA negotiator
  2026-05-09
• How we got free agents in baseball
  2026-05-06
• How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
  2026-05-02
• Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
  2026-04-29
• Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China
  2026-04-24
• Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
  2026-04-22
• Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
  2026-04-18
• How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
  2026-04-14
• BOOKstore Economics
  2026-04-10
• A pro-worker experiment in private equity
  2026-04-08
• Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
  2026-04-04
• Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
  2026-04-02
• The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
  2026-03-28
• Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
  2026-03-26
• Inside a BOOK auction
  2026-03-21
• The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
  2026-03-18
• Chef vs. Robot
  2026-03-13
• The laws of the office revisited
  2026-03-11
• Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
  2026-03-06
• The Business of Heated Rivalry
  2026-03-04
• Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
  2026-02-27
• The ICE hiring boom
  2026-02-25
• The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
  2026-02-21
• How to get what Greenland has, with permission
  2026-02-18
• Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
  2026-02-13
• The Invention Invention
  2026-02-11
• Iran, protests, and sanctions
  2026-02-07
• Riding with the repo man (update)
  2026-02-04
• Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
  2026-01-31
• Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
  2026-01-28
• A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
  2026-01-24
• BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
  2026-01-22
• Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty
  2026-01-17
• How much money President Trump and his family have made
  2026-01-14
• So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.
  2026-01-10
• How Black hair care grew Black power
  2026-01-07
• Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)
  2026-01-04
• Indicators of the Year, Past and Future
  2025-12-31
• Why economists got free trade with China so wrong
  2025-12-30
• Would you trust an economist with your economy?
  2025-08-02
• Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing?
  2025-07-18
• Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
  2025-07-18