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You bet your life insurance adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time on the secondary market for life insurance. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into life settlements, viatical settlements, mortality risk pricing, seller-side pricing opacity, and death-benefit portfolios through Frank, Scott Page, Greg, Jonah Conn, Evergreen Settlements, and Coventry.

Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) adds another reported Planet Money Summer School episode. It extends NPR’s international-economics branch into Argentina’s 2001 collapse, 2022 dollar-hoarding behavior, 2023 inflation routines, and Javier Milei’s early fiscal adjustment through Monetary Volatility, Capital Controls, Multiple Exchange Rate Regime, Menu Costs, Austerity, and Exchange-Rate Flexibility.

Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? adds another reported Planet Money labor-economics episode. It extends NPR’s workplace and retirement-policy branch into Career Mobility Bottleneck, Mandatory Retirement Policy, Lump of Labor Fallacy, Retirement Security Tradeoff, Implicit Contract Retirement Theory, and Phased Retirement Succession through Sarah Gonzalez, Ryan Hendrickson, BJ Swami, Samuel Moyn, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Edward Lazear.

What makes a toy go viral adds another reported Planet Money consumer-economics episode. It extends NPR’s retail and product-design branch into Squishy Dumplings, RMS, Mystery Toy Packaging, Collectible Drop Scarcity, Intermittent Reinforcement, TikTok, Five Below, and Viral Toy Supply Chain.

How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School) adds another reported Planet Money Summer School episode. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Norway’s oil-wealth governance through Hilde Bjornland, Farouk Al Qassem, the Ekofisk Oil Field, and the Norwegian Oil Fund, and into salmon-market creation through Bjorn Adek Olsen, Japan, Nishire, Export Market Coordination, and National Export Branding.

Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) adds another reported Planet Money Summer School episode. It extends NPR’s development-economics branch into Nigeria’s YouWin Program, Lariat Alhassan’s Larklux Paint, and Kenya’s Busia randomized-trial ecosystem through Tavneet Suri, Michael Kremer, Carol Nkesa, Ted Miguel, Pascaline Dupas, and David McKenzie.

Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine adds another reported Planet Money food-system episode. It extends NPR’s consumer-health and economics-reporting branch from food additives into fresh produce through Taylor Farms, Taco Bell, Cyclospora, Bagged Salad Industrialization, Produce Contamination Amplification, Food Safety Modernization Act, and Fresh Produce Safety Regulation.

New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast adds an NPR cross-feed investigative-journalism branch rather than a standard Planet Money economics episode. Kenny Malone uses Planet Money to introduce Embedded’s We Keep Us Safe series with The Seattle Times and KUOW, extending NPR’s coverage into CHOP, Antonio Mays Jr., Police-Free Protest Space, Armed Protest-Zone Security, and Safety Ideal Fatal Contradiction.

A pro-worker experiment in private equity adds another reported Planet Money economics episode, this time on worker ownership inside private equity. It extends NPR’s labor and business-reporting branch into KKR, Pete Stavros, Capital Safety, Cindy Cordes, GSI, Mike Pavelko, and Private Equity Worker Ownership, showing how employee upside depends on communication, trust, leadership quality, and exit mechanics.

We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail? adds another reported Planet Money economics-history and product-development episode. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into General Magic, the Sony Magic Link, early smartphone timing, and constraints as product discipline through Tony Fadell, David Epstein, Clear Customer Definition, Feature Creep, and Constraint-Driven Product Discipline.

Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation adds another reported Planet Money consumer-economics episode, this time on Hershey, Reese’s, and formula changes visible through candy labels. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Skimpflation, Chocolate Compound, Chocolate Label Standards, Cocoa Supply Shock, and Ingredient Reformulation Strategy, while keeping the source’s causality claim disciplined around Brad Reese and Kirk Tanner.

The Invention Invention adds another reported Planet Money economics-history case, this time on patent pools and standards. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into MPEG / Moving Pictures Experts Group, the Sewing Machine Combination, Patent Thicket, Essential Patents, FRAND Licensing, Patent Pool Cartel Risk, and Standards-Based Innovation, showing how U.S. antitrust law can both enable and limit technical coordination.

The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time using Alien and Alien: Romulus to teach labor economics. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Labor Monopsony, Shrouded Job Attributes, Labor Search Frictions, Non-Compete Agreements, Company Town Labor Control, and Labor Market Counterforces through Arin Dube and Fede Alvarez / Fede Álvarez.

The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn’t stop adds another reported Planet Money housing episode, this time on the Squamish Nation’s high-rise development near Vancouver / 温哥华. It extends NPR’s housing-policy branch into Sovereign Housing Development, Local Veto Housing Politics, Permitting Delay Cost, and Indigenous Development Visibility, showing how land-use authority, permitting delay, and cultural return interact in one project.

Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain adds another internal Planet Money publishing-economics case, this time on making the Planet Money Book as a manufactured object. It extends NPR’s book branch into Book Manufacturing Supply Chain, Physical Book Design Tradeoff, Printing Signature Constraint, Book Printer Selection Risk, European Deforestation Regulation Supply Chain, and Domestic Book Printing Flexibility through Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, Tom Mayer, Julia Druskin, Mito Habe Evans, and Lakeside Book Company.

How we got free agents in baseball adds another reported Planet Money economics-history case, this time on Curt Flood, Major League Baseball, and the reserve clause. It extends NPR’s sports-labor branch into Labor Monopsony, Baseball Antitrust Exemption, Public Opinion Litigation Strategy, Baseball Free Agency, and the continuing competitive-balance debate over payroll freedom and salary caps.

How to make a BOOK into a bestseller adds another internal Planet Money publishing-economics case, this time on launch-week conversion and the New York Times bestseller list. It extends NPR’s book branch into Bestseller List Opacity, Pre-Order Launch Concentration, Bulk Book Buying, Book Laundering, and Bestseller Status Feedback Loop through the Planet Money Book’s number-three launch result.

Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights adds another reported Planet Money economics case, this time on Spirit Airlines and cheap flights. It extends NPR’s consumer-market and competition coverage into Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier Model, Airline Unbundling, Stated-Revealed Preference Gap, Basic Economy Copycat Strategy, Airline Loyalty Program Moat, and Airline Market Price Discipline.

Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China adds another reported Planet Money political-economy episode, this time on rare-earth supply chains. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine, Molycorp, Rare Earth Export Leverage, State-Backed Rare Earth Rebuilding, and the market-structure risk that a dominant processor can shape both availability and price.

Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs adds another Planet Money book-tour episode, this time built from live interviews rather than a single field-reported case. It extends NPR’s economics-explanation branch into AI Automation Redistribution, AI Cyber-Defense Utility, Dynamic Pricing Fairness, and Future Resident Housing Voice through Jack Clark and Daryl Fairweather.

Do prediction market bettors make anything better? adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time on Kalshi and prediction-market legitimacy. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Prediction Market Legal Boundary, Prediction Market Public-Good Claim, Prediction Market Trader Alpha, Prediction Market Integrity Oversight, and Event Contract Manipulation Risk, while linking media trust to CNN’s use of prediction-market odds.

How to get through the Strait of Hormuz adds another reported Planet Money political-economy case, this time on the Strait of Hormuz as a shipping chokepoint. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Maritime Chokepoint Tolling, Sanctions Evasion Crypto Payments, General Average, Chokepoint Shipping Confidence, and Freedom of Navigation Trade Order through a Fantagraphics Books shipment scare and Ryan Petersen’s logistics interpretation.

A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch adds another reported Planet Money law-and-economics case, this time on psychedelic churches. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Zydor Church, Psychedelic Churches, Religious Controlled-Substance Exemption, Controlled Substances Act, DEA Exemption Process, Myers Test, and Sacrament Donation Model through an Oakland church that treats mushrooms and DMT as sacrament.

BOOKstore Economics continues NPR’s internal Planet Money book branch from publisher acquisition into retail execution. The source follows Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, Fisher Nash, Carmichael’s Bookstore, Stephen Pace, and W. W. Norton to connect the Planet Money Book to Bookstore Buying, Retail Shelf Placement, Book Returnability, and Book Print-Run Strategy.

Inside a BOOK auction adds a Planet Money publishing-economics case where NPR’s own economics show becomes a book property. It extends NPR’s media-business branch into Book Publishing Economics, Literary Agent Market Making, Book Proposal As Sales Document, Author Platform Risk Reduction, Publishing Auction Design, Advance Against Royalties, Publishing Portfolio Risk, Winner’s Curse, and Educational Distribution Strategy through Alex Goldmark, Laura Nolan, Jane von Mehren, Alex Maiassi, Tom Mayer, and W. W. Norton.

The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time on the Barcelos wild ornamental-fish economy in Brazil. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Cardinal Tetra supply chains, Sustainable Wild Harvesting, Project Piaba, Origin Traceability Moat, and the shift from a local fish trade toward Heritage Tourism Pivot.

Chef vs. Robot adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time on restaurant automation. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Restaurant Automation, Robot Chef Cost-Quality Tradeoff, Wok Hei, and the labor-market distinction between Automation Displacement Effect and Automation Reinstatement Effect through a robot wok versus human chef taste test.

The laws of the office revisited adds another reported Planet Money office-economics episode. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Goodhart’s Law, Parkinson’s Law, the Peter Principle, Truthful Social Proof, and Recognition Incentives as practical cases of Workplace Incentive Design.

The Business of Heated Rivalry adds another Planet Money economics-by-pop-culture case. It extends NPR’s media-business branch into Heated Rivalry, Canadian television financing, producer-owned IP, low-budget production discipline, international streaming distribution, and the creative boundary between AI-assisted production and AI authorship.

Don’t hate the replicator, hate the game adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time on social-science reproducibility. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Replication Crisis, P-Hacking, Publication Bias, replication packages, Preregistration, Robustness Checks, and Research Integrity Incentives through Abel Brodeur and the Replication Games.

The ICE hiring boom adds another reported Planet Money political-economy episode. It extends NPR’s immigration and enforcement coverage into ICE Workforce Expansion, disputed Federal Law Enforcement Training, field-training culture, detention-capacity growth, private detention contracts, and the local fiscal dependence shown by Folkston, Georgia.

The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump’s tariffs. Now what? adds another reported Planet Money economics-and-law episode. It extends NPR’s trade-policy branch into the Supreme Court’s IEPA Tariff Authority Limit, uncertain importer refunds, Tariff Refund Claims Market, Section 122 Tariff Authority, and the small-business operating constraints shown by Kara Dyer and Storytime Toys.

Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines adds another reported Planet Money episode, but in a lighter Valentine collection format. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into public-domain copyright timing, spreadsheet competition, apparel checkout technology, penny minting economics, and public-records investigations of enforcement technology.

BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name? adds another reported Planet Money economics-by-product case. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into The Market For Lemons, Asymmetric Information, Exploding Kittens, Sell Me a Sasquatch, Retail Shelf Appeal, and Cross-Market Naming Friction by following how a theory-driven game becomes a shelf-ready retail product.

Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers adds the next board-game installment. It extends NPR’s branch from naming and packaging into Retail Line Review, Planogram Gatekeeping, Retail Price-Point Product Scoping, Audience-Backed Retail Pitch, Licensed Product Risk Allocation, and Mass Retail Production Deadline, while keeping the actual line-review retailer unnamed and source-scoped.

Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty adds another reported Planet Money political-economy case. It extends NPR’s oil and sanctions reporting branch into Chevron’s century-long relationship with Venezuela, Lake Maracaibo, Dutch Disease, OPEC, PDVSA, and Political Resource Curse.

NPR appears in Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media as the public media organization making a funding appeal after a reported congressional vote to eliminate federal public-media funding. The source presents NPR as a public-service journalism institution whose work depends on public support rather than shareholder or special-interest incentives.

The appeal links NPR’s mission to Local Journalism, Public Media Emergency Access, Public Service Journalism, and Listener-Supported Media. It also connects NPR’s broader podcast network to Planet Money as the feed carrying the message and to 1A, WAMU, Jen White, and If You Can Keep It through the closing promo.

It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down? adds a reported Planet Money episode rather than a funding appeal. It connects NPR’s economics-reporting branch to Tree Protection Ordinances, Urban Canopy Externalities, Regulatory Takings, and Permit Proportionality through local tree-law disputes in Portland, Oregon and Canton, Michigan.

Iran, protests, and sanctions adds another reported Planet Money episode, this time on Iran Sanctions, U.S.-Iran Nuclear Diplomacy, and the civilian costs of Dollar Financial Sanctions. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch from local regulation into international political economy.

Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) adds another Planet Money political-economy case, this time on Venezuela’s oil-funded boom, exchange-rate controls, import shortages, hyperinflation, sanctions pressure, migration, and partial dollar stabilization. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Currency Control Trap, Import Approval Bottleneck, Oil Revenue Dependence, and Dollarized Stabilization.

Can computer hackers get inside your mind? adds a reported Planet Money cybersecurity episode. It extends NPR’s branch into intelligence history, Fast 16, Stuxnet, Cyber Sabotage, and the trust problem created when malware may corrupt calculations rather than simply steal data.

Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets adds a Planet Money episode built from Throughline reporting. It extends NPR’s economics-history branch into Prediction Market History, linking older Election Betting Markets, the Iowa Electronic Markets, and today’s Kalshi and Polymarket platforms.

How much money President Trump and his family have made adds a reported Planet Money episode on presidency-linked private gain. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Office-Linked Profit Accounting, Presidential Conflict Of Interest, and Presidential Crypto Policy Conflict through David Kirkpatrick’s estimate of Donald Trump family gains.

Riding with the repo man (update) adds a reported Planet Money episode on Subprime Auto Lending and Auto Repossession. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into household transportation credit, showing how Car Affordability Stress, long loan terms, income shocks, and GPS-Enabled Repossession can turn a smaller financial market into a severe personal crisis.

There’s no business like dough business adds a reported Planet Money episode on Wetzel’s Pretzels, Ricky Alam, and why three stores can coexist in one Brooklyn transit and retail complex. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Impulse Retail Clustering, Retail Site Selection, Retail Incrementality, and Shared-Kitchen Satellite Retail.

Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? adds a reported Planet Money episode on U.S. supplement regulation, manufacturing, and consumer trust. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Dietary Supplement Regulation, Supplement Structure Function Claims, GRAS Self-Certification, Supplement Label Accuracy, and Herbal Supplement Liver Toxicity through the Prevagen case and expert interviews with Marion Nestle and Melanie Benish.

The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food adds a reported Planet Money episode on Tara Flour, Daily Harvest, and Secret GRAS. It extends NPR’s consumer-health reporting branch from supplement claims into Food Additive Regulation, Premarket Food Safety Review, Post-Harm Food Regulation, and the role of Food Safety Litigation Discovery after food-safety failures.

Two indicators for lowering the rent adds a reported Planet Money episode on housing affordability, corporate landlords, build-to-rent supply, SRO disappearance, and homelessness. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Housing Affordability Supply Mechanics, Corporate Landlord Tradeoffs, Housing Restriction Backfire, Single-Room Occupancy Housing, and Shared Housing Revival.

Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty? adds another reported Planet Money housing episode, this time on HOPE VI and children’s upward mobility. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Neighborhood Opportunity Revitalization, Mixed-Income Housing, Cross-Class Social Capital, Exposure-Dosage Causality, and Public Housing Displacement through Raj Chetty’s evidence and Weissina Williams’s family story.

Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour) adds a Planet Money Summer School episode on China as an Engineering State. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into development policy, real-estate debt, youth unemployment, welfare design, and the comparative U.S. lesson captured by Build, Build, Regulate.

Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour) adds the opening Planet Money Summer School World Tour frame. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Australia’s Water Market Design, Water Rights Trading, farmer backlash, and New Zealand / 新西兰’s invention of Inflation Targeting as an expectations-coordination tool.

The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake adds a Planet Money episode on Brazil’s Middle-Income Trap problem through Manaus and the Zona Franca de Manaus. It extends NPR’s development-economics branch into subsidy-dependent factory assembly, protected domestic-market industrialization, premature deindustrialization, and local innovation paths such as Biodegradable Amazon Plastics.

Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? adds a Planet Money episode on U.S. manufacturing jobs. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Manufacturing Pay Premium, Manufacturing Job Quality, Manufacturing Workforce Pipeline, Tradable Sector Local Growth, and Good Jobs For Non-College Workers while qualifying simple Tech Manufacturing Reshoring optimism.

Why economists got free trade with China so wrong adds a Planet Money episode on why economists underestimated the China Shock. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Free Trade Distributional Cost, Regional Labor Market Scarring, People Versus Places Recovery, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Blanket Tariff Limit, and Strategic Industrial Policy through Greg Rosalsky’s interview with David Autor.

Diary of a WNBA negotiator adds a Planet Money episode on WNBA labor economics. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Sports Collective Bargaining, Sports Labor Revenue Sharing, and the way Women’s Sports Business Growth can become a worker-compensation question.

Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem adds another sports-economics case. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Sports Draft Incentive Design, Sports Tanking, Draft Lottery Tradeoff, Draft Wheel, Gold Plan, No-Draft Player Market, and Sports Player Autonomy by comparing the NBA, PWHL, and NWSL.

Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.? adds a Planet Money episode reported with Becky Sullivan on Major League Soccer’s World Cup opportunity. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Major-Event Attention Conversion, Sports Fandom Network Effects, and the business problem of turning global event attention into repeat local fandom.

How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory) adds a Planet Money football-strategy episode. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Game Theory, Mixed Strategy, Data-Driven Penalty Preparation, and Penalty Shootout Pressure through Ignacio Palacio Huerta’s penalty database and the 2008 Chelsea FC and Manchester United shootout.

The secret meeting that launched OPEC adds a Planet Money episode on OPEC and oil prices. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Oil Producer Supply Coordination, Production Quota Discipline, Swing Producer Role, Green Paradox, and the way Strait of Hormuz shipping risk can block simple gas-price conclusions.

Jerome Powell and the Test of Fed Independence adds a Planet Money episode on Federal Reserve independence. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into central-bank governance, Inflation Bias, presidential pressure, Fed board removal law, and the institutional difference between dissent and political capture.

Why the U.S. Has No Guaranteed Paid Vacation adds a Planet Money episode on U.S. labor-policy exceptionalism. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Paid Vacation As Labor Right, Employer-Bargained Benefits, workplace guilt around time off, and the institutional choice to leave vacation, pensions, and health insurance to private bargaining.

The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes adds a Planet Money investigation into high-end tax avoidance. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into the Malta Tax Loophole, Tax Treaty Arbitrage, leaked adviser strategy calls, Economic Substance Doctrine, and the institutional limits of Tax Enforcement Capacity.

Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment adds another Planet Money political-economy case, this time on Cuba. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into External Patron Dependence, Constrained Market Reform, tourism exposure, and the everyday costs of Oil Dependency Blackout Risk.

Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? adds a higher-education finance case. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Federal Student Loan Caps, Bennett Hypothesis, Grad PLUS Loans, Graduate School Debt, and Loan Cap Access Risk through Corey Turner’s reporting on the Trump administration’s graduate-loan policy.

Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal adds a reported Planet Money consumer-market case on luxury resale. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Luxury Resale Authentication, Asymmetric Information, Trademark Resale Boundary, First Sale Doctrine, and the competition tension between Chanel and The RealReal.

Would you trust an economist with your economy? adds a reported Planet Money episode on the credibility of economists and official economic data. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Economist Trust Crisis, Economic Forecasting Limits, Official Statistics Credibility, Aggregate Indicators Lived Experience Gap, Work From Home Evidence, and Expert Trust Repair through Ben Castleman, Diane (KPMG Chief Economist), Aaron Sojourner, Nick Bloom, and Ben Ho.

Indicators of 2025 and What to Watch in 2026 adds a Planet Money / The Indicator crossover that turns year-end economic storytelling into a set of practical indicators. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Consumer Sentiment Indicator, Effective Tariff Rate Shock, CAPE Ratio Valuation Signal, Federal Funds Rate As Policy Signal, Electricity Affordability Indicator, and K-Shaped Consumer Spending.

How Black hair care grew Black power adds a reported Planet Money consumer-market and Black business history case. It extends NPR’s economics-reporting branch into Johnson Products, Black Hair-Care Market Ownership, Community-Embedded Business, Public Listing Control Tradeoff, and the way hair-care products can become business infrastructure, civil-rights support, and cultural distribution.

Connections

• Argentina, Robert Smith, Jasmine Garsd, Sebastian Galiani, Amanda Aronczyk, Erika Beras, Javier Milei, and Monetary Volatility - Argentina Summer School currency-instability branch added through Planet Money.
• Sarah Gonzalez, Ryan Hendrickson, BJ Swami, Samuel Moyn, Olivia S. Mitchell, Edward Lazear, Career Mobility Bottleneck, Mandatory Retirement Policy, Lump of Labor Fallacy, Retirement Security Tradeoff, and Phased Retirement Succession - older-worker retirement-policy branch added through Planet Money.
• Norway, Hilde Bjornland, Farouk Al Qassem, Ekofisk Oil Field, Norwegian Oil Fund, Bjorn Adek Olsen, Japan, Nishire, Resource Curse Governance, and Export Market Coordination - Norway Summer School branch added through Planet Money.
• Nigeria, Kenya, YouWin Program, Busia, Kenya, Development Economics, Randomized Controlled Trials, and Evidence-Based Development Policy - Summer School development-policy branch added through Planet Money.
• Embedded podcast, We Keep Us Safe, The Seattle Times, KUOW, Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), and Safety Ideal Fatal Contradiction - investigative-podcast branch added through the Planet Money trailer.
• Pete Stavros, KKR, Capital Safety, Cindy Cordes, GSI, Mike Pavelko, 3M, and Private Equity Worker Ownership - worker-ownership and private-equity branch added through Planet Money.
• Hershey, Reese’s, Brad Reese, Judy Gaines, Kirk Tanner, Chocolate Compound, Chocolate Label Standards, Cocoa Supply Shock, Skimpflation, and Ingredient Reformulation Strategy - food-labeling and consumer-product branch added through Planet Money.
• MPEG / Moving Pictures Experts Group, MPEG Patent Pool, Isaac Merritt Singer, Elias Howe Jr., Sewing Machine Combination, Patent Pool, FRAND Licensing, and Standards-Based Innovation - patent-pool and standards branch added through Planet Money.
• Alien, Alien: Romulus, Weyland-Yutani, Arin Dube / Arindrajit Dube, The Wage Standard, Fede Alvarez / Fede Álvarez, Labor Monopsony, Non-Compete Agreements, and Company Town Labor Control - labor-economics-by-film branch added through Planet Money.
• Squamish Nation, Sinak Village Site and High-Rise Development, Vancouver / 温哥华, Sovereign Housing Development, Local Veto Housing Politics, Permitting Delay Cost, and Indigenous Development Visibility - housing, zoning, and Indigenous-sovereignty branch added through Planet Money.
• Curt Flood, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball Players Association, Business History, Baseball Reserve Clause, Labor Monopsony, Baseball Antitrust Exemption, Public Opinion Litigation Strategy, and Baseball Free Agency - baseball labor-history branch added through Planet Money.
• Laura McGrath, Patrick Healy, Rachel Salzman, Gene Shepard, Jacqueline Susann, William Peter Blatty, New York Times Bestseller List, Bestseller Status Feedback Loop, Bestseller List Opacity, Bulk Book Buying, and Pre-Order Launch Concentration - bestseller-list and book-launch branch added through Planet Money.
• Spirit Airlines, Ben Baldanza, Greg Rosalsky, Airline Unbundling, Stated-Revealed Preference Gap, Basic Economy Copycat Strategy, and Airline Market Price Discipline - airline pricing and competition branch added through Planet Money.
• Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine, Molycorp, Mark Smith, MP Materials, NioCorp, Rare Earth Processing Bottleneck, Rare Earth Export Leverage, and State-Backed Rare Earth Rebuilding - rare-earth supply-chain branch added through Planet Money.
• Jack Clark, Daryl Fairweather, AI Automation Redistribution, AI Cyber-Defense Utility, Dynamic Pricing Fairness, and Future Resident Housing Voice - live book-tour branch added through Planet Money.
• Bobby Allen, Mary Childs, Tarek Mansour, Amanda Fisher, Kalshi, CNN, Prediction Market Legal Boundary, Prediction Market Public-Good Claim, and Event Contract Manipulation Risk - prediction-market boom branch added through Planet Money.
• Zydor Church, Dave Hodges, John Rapp, Religious Controlled-Substance Exemption, DEA Exemption Process, and Psychedelic Church Harm Reduction - psychedelic church and federal drug-law branch added through Planet Money.
• Fisher Nash, Carmichael’s Bookstore, Stephen Pace, Planet Money Book, Bookstore Buying, Book Returnability, and Book Print-Run Strategy - bookstore and print-run branch added through Planet Money.
• Christian St. Clair, Fantagraphics Books, One Majesty, Hamid Hosseini, Sepah Navy, Maritime Chokepoint Tolling, Sanctions Evasion Crypto Payments, General Average, and Freedom of Navigation Trade Order - Hormuz shipping-risk branch added through Planet Money.
• Alex Goldmark, Alex Maiassi, Laura Nolan, Jane von Mehren, Tom Mayer, W. W. Norton & Company, Book Publishing Economics, Publishing Auction Design, and Advance Against Royalties - Planet Money book-auction branch added through NPR.
• Barcelos, Rio Negro, Cardinal Tetra, Project Piaba, Sustainable Wild Harvesting, Local Product Advantage Erosion, and Heritage Tourism Pivot - Brazil ornamental-fish branch added through Planet Money.
• Kenny Poon, Robby Wokbot, Phuong Hoang Chiang, Shola Olunloyo, Restaurant Automation, Wok Hei, and Daron Acemoglu - restaurant automation and labor-economics branch added through Planet Money.
• Goodhart’s Law, Parkinson’s Law, Peter Principle, Truthful Social Proof, Recognition Incentives, and Workplace Incentive Design - office-law and workplace-incentive branch added through Planet Money.
• Abel Brodeur, Institute For Replication, Replication Games, Replication Crisis, P-Hacking, Publication Bias, Replication Package, Preregistration, Robustness Checks, and Research Integrity Incentives - social-science reproducibility branch added through Planet Money.
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE Workforce Expansion, Federal Law Enforcement Training, Immigration Detention Expansion, Private Immigration Detention, and Detention As Local Economic Development - immigration-enforcement and detention-economy branch added through Planet Money.
• IEPA Tariff Authority Limit, Tariff Refund Uncertainty, Tariff Refund Claims Market, Section 122 Tariff Authority, Kara Dyer, and Storytime Toys - tariff-law aftermath branch added through Planet Money.
• Planet Money, Betty Boop, Public Domain Reuse, Competitive Spreadsheeting, RFID Checkout, Coin Retirement Economics, and Procurement Records Journalism - Valentine collection branch added through Planet Money.
• Chevron, Venezuela, PDVSA, Petrostate, Dutch Disease, and Political Resource Curse - oil-history and governance branch added through Planet Money.
• Katherine Maher — NPR CEO and speaker in the appeal.
• Public Media Funding — central issue in the source.
• Local Journalism and Public Media Emergency Access — community functions the appeal says could be harmed by funding loss.
• Listener-Supported Media — donation model NPR asks listeners to use.
• Planet Money, 1A, WAMU, and If You Can Keep It — podcast and public-radio context.
• Tree Protection Ordinances and Property Rights And Community Obligations - reported-economics branch added through Planet Money.
• Iran Sanctions, Economic Sanctions As Violence, and Sanctions Overcompliance - international-economics branch added through Planet Money.
• Venezuela, Oil Revenue Dependence, Currency Control Trap, Import Approval Bottleneck, and Dollarized Stabilization - Venezuela economic-collapse branch added through Planet Money.
• Fast 16, Calculation Integrity Attack, Cyber Sabotage, and Epistemological Warfare - cybersecurity and epistemic-trust branch added through Planet Money.
• Throughline, Iowa Electronic Markets, Prediction Market History, and Election Betting Markets - historical prediction-market branch added through Planet Money.
• David Kirkpatrick, Fred Wertheimer, Office-Linked Profit Accounting, and Presidential Crypto Policy Conflict - Trump-family profit-accounting branch added through Planet Money.
• Subprime Auto Lending, Auto Repossession, Car Affordability Stress, and GPS-Enabled Repossession - household-auto-credit branch added through Planet Money.
• Wetzel’s Pretzels, Ricky Alam, Impulse Retail Clustering, and Shared-Kitchen Satellite Retail - impulse-retail branch added through Planet Money.
• Dietary Supplement Regulation, Prevagen, Supplement Structure Function Claims, and Third-Party Supplement Testing - supplement-regulation branch added through Planet Money.
• Daily Harvest, Tara Flour, Secret GRAS, Food Additive Regulation, and Food Safety Litigation Discovery - food-additive regulation branch added through Planet Money.
• Housing Affordability Supply Mechanics, Institutional Single-Family Rental, Single-Room Occupancy Housing, and Supportive Housing Management - housing affordability and SRO branch added through Planet Money.
• HOPE VI Program, Raj Chetty, Richard Allen Homes, Neighborhood Opportunity Revitalization, and Cross-Class Social Capital - public-housing mobility branch added through Planet Money.
• China, Engineering State, Infrastructure Malinvestment, China Real Estate Debt Cycle, and Build, Build, Regulate - China development branch added through Planet Money Summer School.
• Australia, New Zealand / 新西兰, Water Market Design, Water Rights Trading, Market Speculation, Inflation Targeting, and Multiple Equilibria - Summer School World Tour branch added through Planet Money.
• Brazil, Manaus, Middle-Income Trap, Subsidized Assembly Industrialization, and Localized Innovation Advantage - Brazil development branch added through Planet Money.
• Harry Moser, Gordon Hanson, Carolyn Lee, Enrico Moretti, Manufacturing Pay Premium, Manufacturing Workforce Pipeline, and Good Jobs For Non-College Workers - U.S. manufacturing labor-market branch added through Planet Money.
• Greg Rosalsky, David Autor, David Dorn, China Shock, Regional Labor Market Scarring, Trade Adjustment Assistance, Blanket Tariff Limit, and Strategic Industrial Policy - China-shock and trade-policy branch added through Planet Money.
• Women’s National Basketball Association, WNBA Players Association, Alicia Clark, Brianna Turner, Data-Backed Labor Bargaining, and Strike Threat as BATNA - sports-labor bargaining branch added through Planet Money.
• National Basketball Association, Adam Silver, Zach Lowe, Professional Women’s Hockey League, National Women’s Soccer League, Sports Tanking, and Sports Draft Incentive Design - sports draft-design branch added through Planet Money.
• Major League Soccer, Becky Sullivan, Seattle Sounders, New England Revolution, Chicago Fire, and Major-Event Attention Conversion - MLS World Cup conversion branch added through Planet Money.
• Stefan Szymanski, Ignacio Palacio Huerta, Game Theory, Mixed Strategy, and Penalty Shootout Strategy - football game-theory branch added through Planet Money.
• OPEC, Seven Sisters Oil Majors, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oil Producer Supply Coordination, and Green Paradox - oil-market coordination branch added through Planet Money.
• Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, Donald Trump, Lael Brainard, Central Bank Independence, Inflation Bias, and For-Cause Removal Standard - Fed-independence branch added through Planet Money.
• Adewale Maie, Gary Cross, Daniel Hamermesh, Tom Cohen, Paid Vacation As Labor Right, and Employer-Bargained Benefits - paid-vacation labor-policy branch added through Planet Money.
• Malta Tax Loophole, U.S.-Malta Tax Treaty, Carolyn Schenck, Lauren Loricchio, Tax Notes, Economic Substance Doctrine, and Tax Enforcement Capacity - tax-avoidance and IRS-enforcement branch added through Planet Money.
• Cuba, Planet Money, External Patron Dependence, Tourism-Dependent Small Economy, and Oil Dependency Blackout Risk - Cuba crisis branch added through Planet Money.
• Corey Turner, Federal Student Loan Caps, Bennett Hypothesis, Grad PLUS Loans, and Loan Cap Access Risk - higher-education finance branch added through Planet Money.
• Chanel, The RealReal, Luxury Resale Authentication, Trademark Resale Boundary, and First Sale Doctrine - luxury-resale authentication and trademark branch added through Planet Money.
• Ben Castleman, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Aaron Sojourner, Nick Bloom, Ben Ho, and Economist Trust Crisis - economist-trust and official-statistics branch added through Planet Money.
• The Indicator, Kenny Malone, Greg Rosalsky, Darian Woods, Waylon Wong, Stephen Passaha, and Cooper Katz-McKim - crossover indicator branch added through Planet Money.
• Johnson Products, George E. Johnson, Joan Johnson, Afro Sheen, Soul Train, and Black Hair-Care Market Ownership - Black hair-care and Black business ownership branch added through Planet Money.
• Exploding Kittens, Sell Me a Sasquatch, The Market For Lemons, Product Naming As Positioning, and Retail Shelf Appeal - board-game productization branch added through Planet Money.
• Retail Line Review, Planogram Gatekeeping, Retail Price-Point Product Scoping, Audience-Backed Retail Pitch, Licensed Product Risk Allocation, and Mass Retail Production Deadline - big-box retail execution branch added through Planet Money.