Planet Money

NPR

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. Wanna go deeper?...

Episodes

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