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- Length
- 355 episodes · 161 hr 44 min
- Episodes
- 355
- Language
- English
- Level
- Lifelong
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- Free official feed published by the creator
Episodes
- Is this how the great international borrowing spree ends? 25:51
- Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried. 30:31
- How surveillance crept up on us 34:36
- We try to fix election polling (update) 29:59
- Anatomy of a movie market 32:09
- Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help. 29:10
- Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now? 30:03
- Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam) 25:30
- Where all those weird new drinks are coming from 29:40
- Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security? 29:13
- Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs 30:43
- Is our national debt finally too much? (update) 29:49
- The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything 32:22
- How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators) 18:05
- The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis 29:09
- Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation 24:06
- Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake 25:27
- Love in the time of Palantir 25:47
- Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus) 22:54
- Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified" 33:43
- The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) 40:44
- Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers 37:58
- Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School) 40:08
- You bet your life insurance 38:43
- Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) 39:24
- Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? 34:03
- Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School) 40:16
- What makes a toy go viral 25:35
- How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School) 38:55
- Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School) 38:38
- Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine 25:36
- New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast 3:22
- Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.? 26:07
- Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour) 38:41
- Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal 25:38
- Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour) 37:12
- How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory) 17:57
- Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? 28:39
- We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail? 26:52
- Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets 22:57
- The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough 32:30
- Can computer hackers get inside your mind? 29:42
- It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down? 25:15
- Two indicators for lowering the rent 17:47
- Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work? 34:54
- There's no business like dough business 27:23
- The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food 35:41
- The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes 26:19
- The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake 26:58
- Vacation and why Americans take so little 25:09
- Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence 28:53
- The secret meeting that launched OPEC 27:33
- Diary of a WNBA negotiator 29:18
- How we got free agents in baseball 28:51
- How to make a BOOK into a bestseller 46:45
- Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights 25:35
- Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China 34:15
- Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs 29:45
- Do prediction market bettors make anything better? 32:25
- How to get through the Strait of Hormuz 18:53
- BOOKstore Economics 40:52
- A pro-worker experiment in private equity 25:41
- Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation 33:42
- Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment 27:41
- The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop 22:24
- Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain 46:30
- Inside a BOOK auction 43:11
- The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon 33:15
- Chef vs. Robot 25:40
- The laws of the office revisited 29:35
- Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem 30:20
- The Business of Heated Rivalry 27:46
- Don't hate the replicator, hate the game 36:04
- The ICE hiring boom 18:12
- The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? 25:36
- How to get what Greenland has, with permission 27:14
- Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines 31:42
- The Invention Invention 30:42
- Iran, protests, and sanctions 33:18
- Riding with the repo man (update) 29:24
- Can Trump make buying a home more affordable? 27:32
- Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty? 27:45
- A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch 31:42
- When designing a GAME, what's in a name? 36:03
- Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty 33:02
- How much money President Trump and his family have made 30:51
- So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for. 24:34
- How Black hair care grew Black power 29:16
- Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update) 22:25
- Indicators of the Year, Past and Future 18:17
- Why economists got free trade with China so wrong 25:39
- The Rest of the Story, 2025 28:22
- The summer I turned binge-y 30:56
- What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill 32:15
- PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition 54:50
- When Chicago pawned its parking meters 30:56
- Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear 36:10
- How hurricanes became a hot investment 30:57
- Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators) 18:56
- Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version) 24:30
- Saving lives with fewer dollars 32:37
- The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle 19:58
- Days of our Tariffs 30:03
- The obscure pool of money the US used to bail out Argentina 29:17
- Buy now, pay dearly? (update) 25:09
- A new experiment in remote work … from the inside 28:16
- Everything’s more expensive!! Pet care!! Concert tickets!! (Two Indicators) 17:39
- After the shutdown, SNAP will still be in trouble 29:47
- The remittance mystery 28:26
- Should the fine have to fit the crime? 25:45
- TikTok’s Trojan Horse Strategy 25:03
- How Russia’s shadow fleet is sailing around oil sanctions 31:18
- The year NYC went broke 31:59
- How the government got hedge funded 28:10
- Two ways AI is changing the business of crime (Two Indicators) 19:39
- How to design an economics GAME 35:41
- We're making a GAME 32:17
- How refrigeration took over the world 23:29
- How Jane Street’s secret billion-dollar trade unraveled 28:53
- In Gaza, money is falling apart 35:07
- When CEO pay exploded (update) 22:49
- The U.S. now owns a big chunk of Intel. That’s a huge deal. 25:26
- Asking for a friend … which jobs are safe from AI? 28:51
- What happens to central banks under pressure? 25:36
- The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com 20:41
- Lisa Cook and the fight for the Fed 22:49
- Summer School 8: Graduation LIVE! 30:48
- Buy discount Ozempic here now click this link 32:06
- Summer School 7: Trade blocks and blockages 39:21
- When our inflation infeelings don’t match the CPI 31:55
- What happens when governments cook the books 34:51
- Summer School 6: When the markets need a designer 42:01
- Summer School 5: The many ways governments influence industry 36:51
- Would you trust an economist with your economy? 32:21
- Summer School 4: Who are all these regulations protecting? 35:56
- The President's Golden Share in U.S. Steel 28:22
- Summer School 3: How government decides what to spend our money on 36:30
- Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing? 22:44
- Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media 2:01
- Summer School 2: How taxes change behavior and the economy 37:10
- Made in America 30:49
- Summer School 1: A government's role in the economy is to make us all richer 35:46
- The simple math of the big bill 32:12
- A thought experiment on how to fix the national debt problem 25:32
- When Trump met crypto 31:55
- Econ Battle Zone: Budget Showdown 38:41
- The U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change? 28:07
- Jay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update) 30:19
- Why I joined DOGE 27:25
- Are Trump's tariffs legal? 24:53
- When Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA 31:03
- Trump's crypto interests (Two Indicators) 18:13
- The U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory 28:24
- Why does the government fund research at universities? 27:11
- The secret world behind those scammy text messages 34:24
- How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming 23:33
- The 145% tariff already did its damage 26:53
- What happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war 25:30
- Is the reign of the dollar over? 26:14
- What "Made in China" actually means 27:00
- Why it's so hard to find a public toilet 24:07
- Planet Money complains. To learn. 25:51
- How 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank 30:58
- A primer on the Federal Reserve's independence 19:52
- How much for that egg 31:22
- OIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government 26:57
- Trade war dispatch from Canada 26:29
- Do trade deficits matter? 23:37
- How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries 27:57
- Tariffs: What are they good for? 23:28
- PM x Radiolab: Can the economy grow forever? 37:07
- Planet Money buys a mystery diamond 32:22
- Can we just change how we measure GDP? 22:16
- Escheat show (Update) 22:42
- How Tupperware took over our homes, with Decoder Ring 28:26
- The last time we shrank the federal workforce 27:20
- How to start a bank 25:52
- The Parable of Peanut the Memecoin 34:44
- The Memecoin Casino 28:11
- The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers 25:03
- The rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management 27:36
- Can the president override Congress on spending? 22:14
- The Big Government Money Pipe Freeze 25:52
- The 'Crypto Wizard' vs. Nigeria 22:34
- The fight for a legendary shipwreck's treasure 23:29
- How the scratch off lottery changed America 29:42
- How DeepSeek changed the market's mind 26:41
- Re-imagining the energy grid ... through batteries (Two Indicators) 17:49
- The "chilling effect" of deportations 23:15
- After the fires 25:25
- Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions 27:49
- The Land of the Duty Free (classic) 20:19
- The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes 30:43
- ZIP Codes! 28:14
- The potato-shaped loophole in free trade 27:54
- If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? 17:12
- The Rest of the Story, 2024 28:29
- The Indicators of this year and next 22:20
- The habitat banker 33:02
- How sports gambling blew up 30:15
- A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality 28:29
- Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) 26:32
- There Will Be Flood 31:17
- George Soros vs. the Bank of England 30:40
- How useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach? 20:09
- Why you bought your couch 26:15
- Title Pirates 25:30
- The long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators) 15:58
- The great German land lottery 28:55
- The strange way the world's fastest microchips are made 26:42
- What markets bet President Trump will do 26:37
- Moving to the American dream? (update) 23:59
- The veteran loan calamity 36:48
- So your data was stolen in a data breach 28:59
- Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs? 26:27
- Romance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators 17:28
- The Subscription Trap 30:55
- We asked 188 economists. And the survey says... 21:23
- So imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's?? 25:51
- Can cap and trade work in the US? 24:05
- What's up with all the ads for law firms? 18:54
- How Venezuela imploded (update) 23:09
- What's THAT got to do with economics? 25:59
- Veep-onomics 25:05
- How to save 10,000 fingers 24:28
- Can money buy happiness? 28:48
- 99 Percent Invisible: The White Castle System of Eating Houses 32:43
- Rate Expectations 23:13
- Is AI overrated or underrated? 18:50
- Summer camp capitalism 33:32
- Bingo! (Presidential debate edition) 29:14
- How to fix a housing shortage 23:29
- Summer School 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more 32:48
- The trade fraud detective 26:43
- Summer School 7: The Great Depression, the New Deal and how it changed our economy 35:29
- The hidden world behind your new "banking" app 21:12
- Summer School 6: China, Taiwan and how nations grow rich 36:24
- Will the Olympics break breakdancing? 25:48
- Summer School 5: 250 years of trade history in three chapters 36:59
- What to do when you're in a class action 25:34
- Summer School 4: Banker vs president and the birth of the dollar 36:48
- Summer School 3: The first stock and perpetual life 34:14
- What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like 18:10
- The color monopoly 22:03
- Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms 32:49
- Rooftop solar's dark side 27:22
- Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World 34:05
- How flying got so bad (or did it?) 25:15
- The two companies driving the modern economy 20:15
- Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages? 25:43