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Anatomy of a movie market
Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.
Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?
Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam)
Where all those weird new drinks are coming from
Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?
Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs
Is our national debt finally too much? (update)
The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything
How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators)
The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis
Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation
Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake
Love in the time of Palantir
Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus)
Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified"
The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)
Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers
Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)
You bet your life insurance
Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)
Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?
Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)
What makes a toy go viral
How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)
Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)
Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine
New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?
Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)
Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal
Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)
How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)
Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?
We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?
Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets
The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough
Can computer hackers get inside your mind?
It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?
Two indicators for lowering the rent
Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?
There's no business like dough business
The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food
The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes
The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake
Vacation and why Americans take so little
Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence
The secret meeting that launched OPEC
Diary of a WNBA negotiator
How we got free agents in baseball
How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China
Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
BOOKstore Economics
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
Inside a BOOK auction
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
Chef vs. Robot
The laws of the office revisited
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
The Business of Heated Rivalry
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
The ICE hiring boom
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
How to get what Greenland has, with permission
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
The Invention Invention
Iran, protests, and sanctions
Riding with the repo man (update)
Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
EWhen designing a GAME, what's in a name?
Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty
How much money President Trump and his family have made
So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.
How Black hair care grew Black power
Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)
Indicators of the Year, Past and Future
Why economists got free trade with China so wrong
The Rest of the Story, 2025
The summer I turned binge-y
What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill
PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition
When Chicago pawned its parking meters
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear
How hurricanes became a hot investment
Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)
Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)
Saving lives with fewer dollars
The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle
Days of our Tariffs
The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina