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- Two Indicators: unlikely economic relationships
- The salvage car Silk Road
- Breaking down the price of gasoline
- SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Productivity & Getting Lit
- Wake up and smell the fraud
- SUMMER SCHOOL 7: The Fed & Volcker's Socks
- Inflation reduction actually
- SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Trade & The Better Life
- Carried interest wormhole
- SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Car Parts, Celery & The Labor Market
- A new way to pay for college (Update)
- SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Inflation & Drinking Buddies
- BONUS: Micro-Face: The Musical
- Two recession Indicators
- SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Booms, Busts & Us
- Little House on the Blockchain
- SUMMER SCHOOL 2: TKTK
- Best by, sell by, use by
- SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Recessions & Rap Battles
- A tale of two cityhoods
- Two Indicators: crypto consternation
- Suitcases, secret lists, and Citizens United
- When Subaru came out (Classic)
- Recession referees
- The tale of the Onion King (Update)
- The debate over what's causing inflation
- Let them eat lunch
- The Gecko Effect
- On the Case: Recession, Formula, and Greenbacks
- Homer Simpson vs. the Economy
- The bank war (Classic)
- PM Live: The Most Collectible Comic Book Ever?
- The NRA's Secret Tapes
- Investing in mediocrity
- How the burrito become a sandwich (Classic)
- Buy now, pay dearly?
- A 12-year-old girl takes on the video game industry (UPDATE)
- The day Russia adopted the free market
- Escheat show (Classic)
- Planet Money book club
- Risky business
- Finally, our comic book
- TikTok to the top
- The student loan paaaaauuuuuse
- Peanuts and Cracker Jack (Classic)
- How manatees got into hot water
- Turkey's runaway inflation problem
- When bricks were rubles
- The Bond King
- Fashion Fair's makeover
- Two inflation Indicators: Corporate greed and mortgage rates
- Tech giants and tiny dogs
- Escape from Russia
- Grocery delivery wars
- The dollar at the center of the world (Classic)
- Of oligarchs, oil and rubles
- 'Fortress' Russia put to the test
- Putin's big bet: Sanction-proofing Russia
- How bad is inflation?
- Predictions: Inflation!
- SPAM strikes back
- Waste land (Bonus)
- Our Valentines 2022
- A SWIFT getaway
- Uncle Sam wants YOU to fight inflation
- The M&M anomaly (Classic)
- The Spider-Man Problem
- Two indicators: supply chain solutions
- 'Soul Train' and the business of Black joy
- Patent racism (classic)
- The rapid testing show
- No such thing as a free return
- HBO 2.0
- The rest of the story, 2021
- The holiday industrial complex (Classic)
- The economic indicator of the year
- Bell wars (Classic)
- Planet Money's Supply Chain Holiday Extravaganza
- No Shortage of labor stories
- We buy a lot of Christmas trees (Classic)
- Two music indicators
- Is a Stradivarius just a violin? (Classic)
- Consider the lobstermen
- A locked door, a secret meeting and the birth of the Fed (Classic)
- Day of the Debt
- You asked for real raises, free shipping, and a special delivery
- A trunk full of truffles (Update)
- Of boats and boxes
- Auction fever (Classic)
- Planes, trains and bad bridges
- Moonshot in the arm
- The Wheat Whisperer
- Night of the living inflation
- Nice work week, if you can get it
- Two indicators: Congressional Game Theory and the Debt Ceiling
- Burnout (Classic)
- Bonus: Janet Jackson's 'Control'
- Hire power
- How Do You Feel? (Classic)
- LIBOR pains
- We set up an offshore company in a tax haven (Classic)
- The Rent Help Is Too Damn Slow
- When The U.S. Paid Off The Entire National Debt (Classic)
- When Luddites Attack (Classic)
- Original Sign
- Two Indicators: Women and Work
- Afghanistan's Money Problem
- Flood Money (Classic)
- Do You Want to Live in a Bounty Economy?
- This Is Your Brain on Drug Ads
- A Quest To Support Women-Led Businesses
- Two Indicators: Water Pressure
- SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Crypto & Commencement
- The Lost Archives of Sadie Alexander
- SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Bubbles, Bikes, & Biases
- Two Indicators: Will Remote Work Kill the Office?
- Planet Money Summer School 4: Bonds & Becky With the Good Yield
- Big Little Ideas
- Planet Money Summer School 3: Smooth Spending & The 401K
- Mobile Home Parked
- SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Index Funds & The Bet
- Three Reasons for the Housing Shortage
- SUMMER SCHOOL #1: The Stock Market & Penelope The Cow
- Banque Worms
- Video Gaming the System
- The Great Inflation (Classic)
- The Great Inflation (Classic)
- 100 Years Since Sadie Alexander
- Of Memestocks and Milk Bags
- Two Indicators: Clogged Ports and Corporate Vets
- The Rest of the Story, Summer 2021
- What's A Bubble? (Classic)
- Bobby Bonilla Day
- Corporate Fugitive: Carlos Ghosn
- Predictions!
- How Uncle Jamie Broke Jeopardy (Update)
- Used Car Talk
- How Stuff Gets Cheaper (Classic)
- Amateur Hour at the Supreme Court
- Black Wall Street
- One Hack to Fool Them All
- Runaway Recommendation Engine
- Big Government Cheese (CLASSIC)
- Get the Vaccine, Lose the Skinny Jeans
- Blood Money
- Hot Cheetos
- Emission Impossible
- DIY Reparations
- A Superhero Goes to Hollywood
- The $100 Million Deli
- A Superhero Sells Out
- The Writers Revolt (UPDATE)
- India, Farming, and the Free Market
- Workin' 9 to 5
- About Your Extended Warranty
- How Jacob Loud's Land Was Lost
- Two Indicators: Boomtown & Bye Bye
- The Curse Of The Black Lotus (Update)
- Socialism 101
- You Asked for Shots, Tuna, Metal, and Money
- The New Shape of Pasta
- The Even More Minimum Wage
- The $69 Million JPEG
- Nigeria, You Win! (Update)
- The Marriage Pact
- Happy Fed Independence Day (Update)
- We Buy a Superhero: Resurrection
- Bond Voyage
- We Buy a Superhero: Loophole
- Why Printers Are the Worst
- We Buy a Superhero: Origins
- Can't Let It Go
- Fine and Punishment
- Robinhood's Very Bad Day
- Can't Stop GameStop
- The World's Biggest Battery (Classic)
- How Desi Invented Television
- Modern Monetary Theory (Classic)
- The Great Gatsby
- Nervous TikTok
- Planet Monet (Classic)
- The Bees Go To California (Classic)
- Chaos at the Capitol
- Bitcoin Losers (Classic)
- The Rest of the Story, 2020
- How To Stop An Asteroid (UPDATE)
- Fork the Government
- The Mixtape Drama
- The Case Against Facebook
- We Buy a Lot of Christmas Trees
- The Stolen Company (Classic)
- How the Rat Blew Up
- Before the Shot in the Arm
- Hot Dog Hail Mary (Classic)
- Swamp Gravy (UPDATE)
- All Your Genes Are Belong to Us
- Trade Show (Update)
- Biden Time
- Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (Classic)
- Hacking the Perfect Auction
- What's Next for the Economy?
- What Economy Are You Voting for?
- Who Gets to Vote in Florida?
- Frame Canada
- Hey Google, Are You Too Big?
- Opening Schools and Other Hard Decisions
- Caste Arrives in Silicon Valley
- Political Ad Nauseam
- Rethinking Black Wealth
- Call Center Call Out
- Trump's Tiny Taxes
- Sell Me Your Climate Bombs
- REDMAP (Update)
- Apple v Everybody
- After the Plague
- Waste Land
- We Buy a Junk Bond
- The Murderer, the Boy King, and the Invention of Modern Finance
- SUMMER SCHOOL: Graduation!
- Your Brain on Retail Trading
- The Old Rules Were Dumb Anyway
- SUMMER SCHOOL 8: Risk & Disaster
- Crisis at the Post Office
- SUMMER SCHOOL 7: Advertising & Race
- Big Rigged
- SUMMER SCHOOL 6: Taxes & Donald Duck
- Mask Communication
- SUMMER SCHOOL 5: Trade & Santa
- College Fails
- SUMMER SCHOOL 4: Pistachios & Scarcity
- Rest of the Story, Pandemic Edition
- SUMMER SCHOOL 3: Profit & Cocaine
- BONUS: The Kerner Commission
- Getting Out of Prison Sooner
- SUMMER SCHOOL 2: Markets & Pickles
- Hollywood's Black List
- SUMMER SCHOOL 1: Choices & Dating
- Planet Money Summer School
- Reparations For Police Brutality (UPDATE)
- Inflation, Deflation
- Seed Spy
- Owner of a Broken Hertz
- Money and Justice
- The Problem of the Root (2018)
- Patent Racism
- The Very First Vaccine
- Police Unions and Police Violence
- Where'd the Money Go, and Other Questions
- Small America vs. Big Internet
- Three Big Ideas
- J. Screwed
- How to Get Trillions to Millions
- Episode 1,000
- #999: the Restaurant From the Future
- #998: Journey to the Center of the Fed
- #997: Georgia's Open Question
- #996: About That Hazard Pay
- #995: Buybacks and Bailouts
- #994: Making It Work
- #993: Negative Oil
- #992: the Mask Mover
- #991: Lives vs. the Economy
- #990: the Big Small Business Rescue
- #989: What If No One Pays Rent?
- #988: the Economics of Hospital Beds
- #987: the Race to Make Ventilators
- #986: America Unemployed
- #985: Where Do We Get $2,000,000,000,000?
- #984: Food and Farmworkers
- #983: You Asked About the Virus Economy
- #982: How to Save the Economy Now
- #981: How to Test a Country
- #980: the Fed Fights the Virus
- #979: Medicine for the Economy
- #978: Coronavirus, Oil, and Kansas
- #977: Where's the Vaccine?
- #976: Terms of Service
- #975: Reparations in New Zealand
- #826: Vodka Proof
- #974: Michael Milken
- #973: Indicate This
- #972: The CryptoQueen
- #971: Our Valentines 2020
- #970: Raw Milk Deal
- #772: Small Change
- #969: the Island No One Owns
- #968: the Trouble With Table 101
- #967: Escheat Show
- #966: the Rise of Putin
- #965: Das Green Old Deal
- #964: BILLBOARDS
- #963: 13,000 Economists. 1 Question.
- #386: the Cost of Free Doughnuts
- #962: Advanced Fairness at the Marathon
- #216: How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil
- #961: the Rest of the Story, 2019
- #960: the Writers Revolt
- #959: Things We Learned in 2019
- #958: When Reagan Broke the Unions
- #957: You're Giving Your Boss a Loan
- #592: Bell Wars
- #956: the Carriage Tax
- #773: Slot Flaw Scofflaws
- #955: Pirate Videos
- #674: We Cooked a Peacock
- #954: What Is Foreign Interference, Anyway?
- #953: Three Sides of a Car Loan
- #952: Sperm Banks
- #951: Snakebite
- #950: Overrated or Underrated?
- #777: Free Love, Free Market
- #949: the Pigou Club
- #948: a Series of Unfortunate Recessions
- #947: Some-of-the-Money Ball
- #946: Fries of the Future
- #945: the Liberty City
- #532: the Wild West of the Internet
- #722: the New Telenovela
- #721: Unbuilding a City
- Oil #5: Imagine a World Without Oil
- Oil #4: How Oil Got Into Everything
- Oil #3: How Fracking Changed the World
- Oil #2: the Price of Oil
- Oil #1: We Buy Oil
- #524: Mr Jones' Act
- #715: the Sewing Robot
- #548: Project Eavesdrop
- #714: Can a Game Show Lose?
- #576: When Women Stopped Coding
- #713: Paying for the Crime
- #712: I Want My Money Back
- #711: Hooked on Heroin
- #710: The Brexit Break-Up
- #575: the Fondue Conspiracy
- #709: The Quiet Old Lady Who Whispers "Fair Use"
- #753: Blockchain Gang
- #728: the Wells Fargo Hustle
- #521: the Town That Loves Death
- #727: You Asked for It, Again
- #726: Terms of the Debate
- #725: Trade Show
- #555: Why Is the Milk in the Back of the Store?
- #573: Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing
- #724: Cat Scam
- #566: the Zoo Economy
- #723: the Risk Farmers
- #944: We Should Have Mentioned That
- #763: BOTUS
- #943: Unicorn Cowboy
- #942: Capitalism in the Courtroom
- #941: Three Bets
- #770: When India's Cash Disappeared
- #940: Interest Rates... Why So Negative?
- #658: Strike One
- #939: the Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
- #794: How to Make It in the Music Business
- #938: the Marshall Plan
- #937: Moving to Opportunity?
- #936: the Modal American
- 935: You Asked for a Food Show
- #934: Two Yield Curve Indicators
- #933: Find the Helium
- #616: How Solar Got Cheap
- #932: Deep Learning With the Elephants
- #931: The IT Guy Vs. The Con Artist
- #930: Twins
- #598: That Time We Shorted America, Part Two
- #597: That Time We Shorted America, Part One
- #929: Could a Wealth Tax Work?
- #928: Hong Kong
- #927: the Indicator in the House
- #926: So, Should We Recycle?
- #925: a Mob Boss, a Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle
- #924: Stuck in China's Panopticon
- #752: Eagles vs. Chickens
- #923: Good Teachers, Bad Deal
- #922: the Cost of Getting Your Money Back
- #921: Tales From the Parking Lot
- #920: What Should We Be Worried About?
- #919: Are Cities Overrated?
- #590: the Planet Money Workout
- #918: the Day of Two Noons
- #651: the Salmon Taboo
- #917: Quit Threat!
- #916: the Whistleblower Whisperer
- #915: How to Meddle in an Election
- #914: Trump and Deutsche, a Long Affair
- #913: Counting the Homeless
- #407: a Mathematician, the Last Supper, and the Birth of Accounting
- #912: How Uncle Jamie Broke Jeopardy
- #911: You Asked the Listener Question Hotline
- #910: Economics, Sexism, Data
- #416: Why The Price of Coke Didn't Change For 70 years
- #909: Dollar Stores vs Lettuce
- #908: I Am Not a Robot
- #907: Two Spring Indicators
- #644: How Much Does This Cow Weigh?
- #906: The Chicago Boys, Part II
- #905: the Chicago Boys, Part I
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