All episodes
The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle
Days of our Tariffs
The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina
Buy now, pay dearly? (update)
A new experiment in remote work … from the inside
Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators)
After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble
The remittance mystery
Should the fine have to fit the crime?
TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy
How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions
The year NYC went broke
How the government got hedge funded
Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators)
How to design an economics GAME
We're making a GAME
How refrigeration took over the world
How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled
In Gaza, money is falling apart
When CEO pay exploded (update)
The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal.
Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI?
What happens to central banks under pressure?
The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com
Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed
Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE!
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Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages
When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI
What happens when governments cook the books
Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer
Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry
Would you trust an economist with your economy?
Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting?
The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel
Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on
Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing?
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy
Made in America
Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer
The simple math of the big bill
A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem
When Trump met crypto
Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown
The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change?
Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update)
Why I joined DOGE
Are Trump's tariffs legal?
When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA
Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators)
The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory
Why does the government fund research at universities?
The secret world behind those scammy text messages
How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming
The 145% tariff already did its damage
What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war
Is the reign of the dollar over?
What "Made in China" actually means
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet
Planet Money complains. To learn.
How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank
A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence
How much for that egg
OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government
Trade war dispatch from Canada
Do trade deficits matter?
How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries
Tariffs: What are they good for?
PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever?
Planet Money buys a mystery diamond
Can we just change how we measure GDP?
Escheat show (Update)
How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring
The last time we shrank the federal workforce
How to start a bank
The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin
EThe Memecoin Casino
EThe controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers
The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management
Can the president override Congress on spending?
The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze
The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria
EThe fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure
How the scratch off lottery changed America
How DeepSeek changed the market's mind
Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators)
The "chilling effect" of deportations
After the fires
Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions
The Land of the Duty Free (classic)
The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes
ZIP Codes!
The potato-shaped loophole in free trade
If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators?
The Rest of the Story, 2024
The Indicators of this year and next
The habitat banker
How sports gambling blew up
A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality