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Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we explore the forces that shape our lives and bring you along for the ride. Don't just understand the economy – understand the world.
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Episodes 355 episodes in the feed

  1. Is this how the great international borrowing spree ends?

    25 min

  2. Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.

    30 min

  3. How surveillance crept up on us

    34 min

  4. We try to fix election polling (update)

    29 min

  5. Anatomy of a movie market

    32 min

  6. Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.

    29 min

  7. Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?

    30 min

  8. Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam)

    25 min

  9. Where all those weird new drinks are coming from

    29 min

  10. Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?

    29 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs

    30 min

  2. Is our national debt finally too much? (update)

    29 min

  3. The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything

    32 min

  4. How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators)

    18 min

  5. The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis

    29 min

  6. Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation

    24 min

  7. Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake

    25 min

  8. Love in the time of Palantir

    25 min

  9. Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus)

    22 min

  10. Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified"

    33 min

  11. The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)

    40 min

  12. Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers

    37 min

  13. Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)

    40 min

  14. You bet your life insurance

    38 min

  15. Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)

    39 min

  16. Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?

    34 min

  17. Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)

    40 min

  18. What makes a toy go viral

    25 min

  19. How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)

    38 min

  20. Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)

    38 min

  21. Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine

    25 min

  22. New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast

    Trailer3 min

  23. Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?

    26 min

  24. Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)

    38 min

  25. Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal

    25 min

  26. Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)

    37 min

  27. How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)

    17 min

  28. Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?

    28 min

  29. We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?

    26 min

  30. Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets

    22 min

  31. The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough

    32 min

  32. Can computer hackers get inside your mind?

    29 min

  33. It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?

    25 min

  34. Two indicators for lowering the rent

    17 min

  35. Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?

    34 min

  36. There's no business like dough business

    27 min

  37. The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food

    35 min

  38. The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes

    26 min

  39. The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake

    26 min

  40. Vacation and why Americans take so little

    25 min

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