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How Venezuela's Economy Collapsed And Led To Political Unrest
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The Mysterious Missing Trillions In Donald Trump's Tax Plan
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Trump's Possible 'Border Adjustment Tax,' Explained
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Bees Travel Cross Country For The California Almond Harvest
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Episode 531: The Tough, The Sweet, The Nosy
This episode originally ran in 2014. Millions of tax cheats never get caught. And the IRS seems powerless to stop them.This isn't just a problem here. American taxpayers are Dudley Do-Rights compared...
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The Mastermind Behind The International Irish Pub
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Episode 764: Pub In A Box
Here's what Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, and Ireland have in common: They all have Irish pubs.And a bunch of them are the product of one man: Mel McNally.McNally spent his final year in architecture school...
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Episode 553: The Dollar At The Center Of The World
Note: This episode originally ran in 2014. As World War II was ending, world leaders realized they had a problem. Countries no longer knew how to trade with each other. Their economies were devastated....
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Episode 769: Speed Dating For Economists
About 1,800 economics graduate students converged on the chilly Chicago streets in early January. Some of them ran through those streets, trying to get to the next hotel on time.They were trying to...
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Economists Take Cues From Speed Dating With Job Search System
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Episode 771: When India's Cash Disappeared, Part Two
This part two of a two part series. Listen to part one here. A couple of years ago, a mechanical engineer met with Narendra Modi, who would later become India's Prime Minister. The engineer proposed a...
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Episode 776: Here We Grow Again
There is nobody more sunny and optimistic than a politician writing a budget, and Donald Trump is no different.His budget promises a golden age of new jobs and progress, with tax cuts and a border wall...
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Episode 778: What the Falcon's Up With Qatar?
Eighty years ago, Qatar's primary industry was pearl-diving. Today, the tiny Persian Gulf nation is the richest country in the world per capita. It's also in a lot of trouble.Saudi Arabia and several...
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Is It Realistic? Trump Budget Relies On 3 Percent Economic Growth
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Episode 286: Libertarian Summer Camp
Note: This episode originally ran in 2011.Six years ago, we traveled to a place where people are trying to live without government interference. A place where you can use bits of silver to buy...
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Episode 586: How Stuff Gets Cheaper
Note: This episode originally ran in 2014.We tend to get obsessed with things that get more expensive over time — college tuition, say, or health care. But lots of things have actually gotten cheaper...
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Episode 784: Meeting The Russians
In 1996, Bill Browder went to Russia to try to make a fortune. He made his money, but he also found himself in a fight with Russian oligarchs over money and power. And he lost. It cost him not just his...
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Episode 786: Rest of the Story 2017, Vol. 1
Have you noticed? Something strange has happened to the passage of time. Sometimes it feels like Friday... but it's still Tuesday afternoon. We've felt it at Planet Money, too.At the end of every year,...
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Episode 471: The Eddie Murphy Rule
Note: This episode originally ran in 2013. It contains some explicit language.On this show, we talk to commodities traders to answer one of the most important questions in finance: What actually...
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The Art Of The Pitch: Vendors Hawk Items At The Ohio State Fair
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What Happened When 'Planet Money' Went On A Mission To Adopt A Spacecraft
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After Acquiring A Satellite, 'Planet Money' Had To Find The Fuel To Get It In...
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Countdown Begins As 'Planet Money's' Satellite Gets Placed On Rocket
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Episode 832: Mulvaney Vs The CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB, was introduced in the wake of the financial crisis to protect consumers from banks and lenders. It has become a kind of Rorschach test for how you...
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Episode 661: The Less Deadly Catch
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015. What kind of person would go out in a tiny boat in dangerous weather to catch fish for 24 hours straight? Everyone. Well, everyone in Homer, Alaska.Halibut...
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How Sometimes Just A Threat Of A Tariff Can Change The Flow Of Global Trade
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Episode 835: Tariffied
Trade war! It all started when President Donald Trump announced a new set of tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum. China responded with a list of tariffs of its own. Then, President Trump made a...
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Episode 640: The Bottom Of The Well
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015. California is looking at a drought again. The last drought in California made life inconvenient in a lot of ways, from water rationing to taps actually...
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Episode 575: The Fondue Conspiracy
The popularity of fondue wasn't an accident. It was planned by a cartel of Swiss cheese makers, which ruled the Swiss economy for 80 years.On today's show: we cut into the Swiss cheese. It's a story...
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Episode 841: The Land Of Duty Free
In the 1940s, if you were flying from New York City to London or Paris you would find yourself making a pit stop for fuel on the western coast of Ireland. The Shannon airport at the time wasn't much to...
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A Look At Where Those Duty Free Shops In Airports Got Started
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Episode 842: Showdown at the WTO
Twenty three years ago, the United States and just about every country in the world decided that they were going to create a common set of rules about trade. Rule one: If anyone broke these rules,...
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Episode 643: The Taxi King
Note: This episode originally aired in 2015. The most valuable thing about a yellow taxicab in New York isn't the car. It's actually this little metal shield bolted to the hood. It's called a taxi...
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Episode 844: Nice Game
Bob Axelrod was teaching political science at the University of Michigan in the 1980s, and he was obsessed with one idea: how to get countries to cooperate. Back then, it looked like the United States...
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Episode 848: The World's Biggest Battery
California is generating a ton of solar power--some days, more than people can use. It could power the whole state soon, except for one problem: There's no way to hold on to all that energy at...
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The Beautiful Indicator
Everyone's caught up in World Cup fever, and Team Indicator is not immune. Today on the show: Cardiff, Stacey, and the gang sneak out of the office and set up shop in an Irish pub to explore the many...
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Episode 700: Peanuts And Cracker Jack
Note: This episode originally ran in 2016.There's not a lot of running in baseball. Mostly the players just stand around. But up in the stands, there is a very different game being played--one that...
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Episode 472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming ... Revisited
Climate change seems like this complicated, intractable problem. But maybe it doesn't have to be.In 2013, we talked to a couple economists about a very simple idea that could solve the climate change...
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Episode 855: The Poop Cartel
Poop is big business in Dakar, Senegal. That's because a lot of the homes have septic tanks, which need to be cleaned out regularly. The best way to clean your tank is by hiring a proper truck, which...
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How Economists Fought Back Against Senegal's Septic Cartel
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Episode 444: New Jersey Wine
This episode originally ran on March 15, 2013.Sometimes your success depends on how your competitors behave. People judge you not just by your product, but by the product that your rival down the...
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Episode 657: The Tale Of The Onion King
This show originally ran on October 14, 2015.Vince Kosuga was an onion farmer back in the 1930s. A pretty successful one. But farming wasn't enough for him. He also liked to make bets on wheat and...
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Episode 453: What Causes What?
This episode originally ran in April 2013.What causes what? The human brain is programmed to answer this question constantly, and using a very basic method. This is how we survive. What made that...
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Episode 676: The First Lottery & How To Beat The Odds
A version of this episode originally ran in January 2016.Tonight's Mega Millions jackpot is the largest in history at $1.6 billion. And we've got lottery fever again.Today on the show, the story of the...
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Episode 468: Kid Rock Vs. The Scalpers
Note: This episode originally ran in 2013.Scalpers. They are the bane of performers everywhere, taking reasonably-priced tickets and selling them at a profit.But the market for scalped tickets only...
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Episode 533: Why Car Safety Is A Trade Barrier
This episode originally aired in 2014.We go to the auto show to find out why can't you build a car that can be driven anywhere in the world.Cars could be cheaper. Car companies could make more money....
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Episode 539: What's A Penny Worth?
This show originally ran in 2014. A penny is a strange thing. It is money, but it's just about worthless. It's near impossible to buy something with just one penny. (Trust us. We tried.) And yet, the...
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Episode 609: The Curse Of The Black Lotus
In a classic bubble — as we've seen in housing, tech stocks, or Beanie Babies — the fun ends in a crash. Things go belly up, and people can lose a lot of money.The creators of the collectible card game...
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Why Christmas Trees Are So Expensive?
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NPR's Planet Money Team Sets Out To Buy A Vintage Superhero
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