Title Pirates

The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators)

The great German land lottery

The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made

What markets bet President Trump will do

Moving to the American dream? (update)

The veteran loan calamity

So your data was stolen in a data breach

Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs?

Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators

The Subscription Trap

We asked 188 economists. And the survey says...

So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's??

Can cap and trade work in the US?

What's up with all the ads for law firms?

How Venezuela imploded (update)

What's THAT got to do with economics?

Veep-onomics

How to save 10,000 fingers

Can money buy happiness?

99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses

Rate Expectations

Is AI overrated or underrated?

Summer camp capitalism

Bingo! (Presidential debate edition)

How to fix a housing shortage

Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more

The trade fraud detective

Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy

The hidden world behind your new "banking" app

Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich

Will the Olympics break breakdancing?

Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters

What to do when you're in a class action

Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar

Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life

What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like

The color monopoly

Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms

Rooftop solar's dark side

Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World

How flying got so bad (or did it?)

The two companies driving the modern economy

Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?

The Carriage Tax (Update)

The Vapes of Wrath

Why is everyone talking about Musk's money?

What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved.

Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight

How much national debt is too much?

The history of light (classic)

How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells

So you've been scammed, now what?

The junkyard economist

Anatomy of a layoff

The hack that almost broke the internet

Why Gold? (Classic)

Zombie mortgages are coming back to life

Inside video game economics (Two Indicators)

The birth of the modern consumer movement

Hire Power (Update)

The case of the stolen masks

How unions are stopped before they start (Update)

FTX and the Serengeti of bankruptcy

Grocery prices, credit card debt, and your 401K (Two Indicators)

TikTok made me deduct it

How much does this cow weigh? (Classic)

Japan's Lost Decades

The real estate industry on trial

How much of your tax dollars are going to Israel and Ukraine

The trouble with Table 101 (Update)

What is Temu?

How Big Steel in the U.S. fell

The billion dollar war behind U.S. rum

Wind boom, wind bust (Two Windicators)

On the Oscars campaign trail

Is dynamic pricing coming to a supermarket near you?

Shopping for parental benefits around the world

The secret world behind school fundraisers

A controversial idea at the heart of Bidenomics

Two Indicators: Economics of the defense industry

How the Navy came to protect cargo ships

It's giving ... Valentines

A lawsuit for your broken heart

Morally questionable, economically efficient

Groundhog Day 2024: Trademark, bankruptcy, and the dollar that failed

The Chicken Tax (Classic)

Bonus: Janet Yellen on Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!

Rescues at sea, and how to make a fortune

Hear us out: We ban left turns and other big ideas

Econ Battle Zone: Disinflation Confrontation

Mid-East conflict escalation, two indicators

The Maine Potato War of 1976

The Universal Basic Income experiment in Kenya

The case of the serial sinking Spanish ships

The Rest of the Story, 2023

The Indicators of this year and next

We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Update)

Dollarizing Argentina

How to be better at hybrid work, according to research

What econ says in the shadows

Why '90s ads are unforgettable

The U.S. economy's biggest superpower, explained

Why do doctors still use pagers?

Two food and drink indicators

Why are we so bummed about the economy?

So you want to sell marijuana across state lines

A very Planet Money Thanksgiving

Economic fact in literary fiction

China's real estate crisis, explained

The alleged theft at the heart of ChatGPT

Never have I ever

FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon

Antitrust in America (classic)

All you can eat economics

Cutting school... by 20%

How unions are stopped before they start

Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation

Maria Bamford gets personal (about) finance

Why the price of Coke didn't change for 70 years (classic)

A man, a plan, wind power, Uruguay

The flight attendants of CHAOS

A trucker hat mystery, the curse of September and other listener questions

The natural disaster economist

A black market, a currency crisis, and a tango competition in Argentina

"Based on a true story"

How to launder $600 million on the internet

China's weakening economy in two Indicators

Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?

The prince of prints and his prints of Prince

How to fight a patent pirate

Summer School 8: Graduation and the Guppy Tank

The secret entrance that sidesteps Hollywood picket lines

Summer School 7: Negotiating and the empathetic nibble

Vacation, and why the U.S. takes so little of it

Summer School 6: Operations and 25,000 roses

The new Biden plan that could still erase your student loans

Summer School 5: Tech and the innovator's dilemma

A tarot card reading for the U.S. economy

Summer School 4: Marketing and the Ultimate Hose Nozzle

Tackle your medical debt with Life Kit

Did two honesty researchers fabricate their data?

Summer School 3: Accounting and The Last Supper

Planet Money Paper Club

Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker

Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet

Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school

The quest to save macroeconomics from itself

Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways

Supply, demand, extinction

Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie

Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police

Twins (classic)

The 60-day job race

Two Indicators: The economics of innovation

The town that changed economics

The Spider-Man Problem (update)

AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization

AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine

AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines

Green energy gridlock

Predictions: Jobs!

How AI could help rebuild the middle class

Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral

The Day of Two Noons (Classic)

How to fight a squatting goat

Two Indicators: the influencer industry

Financial advising while Black

The zoo economy (classic)

The quest for the factory-built house

Tax Code Switch

The life and possible death of low interest rates

Two innovation market indicators

Your banking questions, answered

The battle for Puerto Rico's beaches

The safety net for banks

A Great Recession bank takeover

The battle over Osage headrights

Inside a bank run

Planet Money Records Vol. 3: Making a hit

How Silicon Valley Bank failed

Dude, where's my streaming TV show?

The value of good teeth

Seinfeld-onomics

CBOhhhh, that's what they do

Meow Money Meow Problems

Hollywood's Black List (Classic)

Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure

Two Indicators: Inside the Fed, then and now

Our 2023 valentines

The ice cream conspiracy

Baby's first market failure

Groundhog Day 2023

To all the econ papers I've loved before

The story of "Monopoly" and American capitalism

Charles Ponzi's scheme

Big Rigged (Classic)

Two Indicators: The 2% inflation target

Planet Money Movie Club: It's a Wonderful Life

The economics lessons in kids' books

The Rest of the Story, 2022

Which economic indicator defined 2022?

In defense of gift giving

Two Indicators: The fight over ESG investing

The sports ticket price enigma

Spam call bounty hunter

The case of the missing cheese racks

When women stopped coding (Classic)

My Favorite Tax Loophole

Messi economics

One economist's take on popular advice for saving, borrowing, and spending

How the cookie became a monster

Sam Bankman-Fried and the fall of a crypto empire

The E-Book Wars

Peak Sand (classic)

Planet Money tries election polling

Two Indicators shaking China's economy

Planet Money Records Vol. 2: The Negotiation

Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jackson

The high cost of a strong dollar

The money fixers (classic)

You asked for coupons, Delaware, and the truth about goldfish

Two Indicators: back to school

Forging Taiwan's Silicon Shield

Economic anarchy in the UK

Would you like a side of offshoring with that?

The miracle apple (Classic)

Econ's Brush with the Law

The Midnight Connection

Vibecession Vibes Session

The Good, the Bad, and the Uggly

Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships

The salvage car Silk Road

Breaking down the price of gasoline

SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit

Wake up and smell the fraud

SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks

Inflation Reduction Actually

SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life

Carried interest wormhole

SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market

A new way to pay for college (Update)

SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies

We Buy a Superhero 8: Micro-Face: The Musical

Two recession Indicators

SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Booms, Busts & Us

Little House on the Blockchain

SUMMER SCHOOL 2: GDP & What Counts

Best by, sell by, use by

SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles

A tale of two cityhoods

Two crypto crash Indicators

Suitcases, secret lists, and Citizens United

When Subaru came out (Classic)

Recession referees

The tale of the Onion King (Update)

The debate over what's causing inflation

Let them eat lunch

The Gecko Effect

On the case: Recession, formula, and greenbacks

Homer Simpson vs. the economy

The bank war (Classic)

We Buy a Superhero 7: Collectibles (Live Show!)

The NRA's Secret Tapes

Investing in mediocrity

How the burrito became a sandwich (Classic)

Buy now, pay dearly?

A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry (UPDATE)

The day Russia adopted the free market

Escheat show (Classic)

Planet Money book club

Risky business

We Buy a Superhero 6: The Comic Book

TikTok to the top

The student loan paaaaauuuuuse

Peanuts and Cracker Jack (Classic)

How manatees got into hot water

Turkey's runaway inflation problem

When bricks were rubles

The Bond King

Fashion Fair's makeover

Two inflation Indicators: Corporate greed and mortgage rates

Tech giants and tiny dogs

Escape from Russia

Grocery delivery wars

The dollar at the center of the world (Classic)

Of oligarchs, oil and rubles

'Fortress' Russia put to the test

Putin's big bet: Sanction-proofing Russia

How bad is inflation?

Predictions: Inflation!

SPAM strikes back

Waste land (Bonus)

Our Valentines 2022

A SWIFT getaway

Uncle Sam wants YOU to fight inflation

The M&M anomaly (Classic)

The Spider-Man Problem

Two indicators: supply chain solutions

'Soul Train' and the business of Black joy

Patent racism (classic)

The rapid testing show

No such thing as a free return

HBO 2.0

The rest of the story, 2021

The holiday industrial complex (Classic)

The economic indicator of the year

Bell wars (Classic)

Planet Money's Supply Chain Holiday Extravaganza

No shortages of labor stories

We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Classic)

Two music indicators

Is a Stradivarius just a violin? (Classic)

Consider the lobstermen

A locked door, a secret meeting and the birth of the Fed (Classic)

Day of the Debt

You asked for real raises, free shipping, and a special delivery

A trunk full of truffles (Update)

Of boats and boxes

Auction fever (Classic)

Planes, trains and bad bridges

Moonshot in the arm

The Wheat Whisperer

Night of the living inflation

Nice work week, if you can get it

Two indicators: Congressional Game Theory and the Debt Ceiling

Burnout (Classic)

Bonus: Janet Jackson's 'Control'

Hire power

How Do You Feel? (Classic)

LIBOR pains

We set up an offshore company in a tax haven (Classic)

The Rent Help Is Too Damn Slow

When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (Classic)

When Luddites Attack (Classic)

Original Sign

Two Indicators: Women And Work

Afghanistan's Money Problem

Flood Money (Classic)

This Is Your Brain On Drug Ads

Two Indicators: Water Pressure

SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Crypto & Commencement

The Lost Archives of Sadie Alexander

SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Bubbles, Bikes, & Biases

Two Indicators: Will Remote Work Kill The Office?

SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Bonds & Becky With The Good Yield

Big Little Ideas

SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Smooth Spending & The 401K

Mobile Home Parked

SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Index Funds & The Bet

Three Reasons for the Housing Shortage

SUMMER SCHOOL 1: The Stock Market & Penelope The Cow

Banque Worms

Video Gaming The System

The Great Inflation (Classic)