Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie
The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped...
Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie
The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped...
Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police
In 1978, a young man named Mike Shanks started a moving business in the north end of Seattle. It...
Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like "Can you read each other's minds?" or...
People come from all over the world to work in U.S. tech. And during the tech boom years, the...
Two Indicators: The economics of innovation
Innovation is crucial for game-changing advancements in society, whether it's treatments for...
The town that changed economics
In the early 90s, when a young economist named Michael Kremer finished his PhD, there had been a...
The Spider-Man Problem (update)
(Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.) This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the...
AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization
It's the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first...
AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine
In Part 1 of this series, AI proved that it could use real research and real interviews to write...
AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines
We used to think some jobs were safe from automation. Though machines have transformed industries...
Lyle Jack wants to build a wind farm on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. But to make...
It's time for another installment of ... Planet Money Predictions! *air horn* Last year, we...
How AI could help rebuild the middle class
For the last four decades, technology has been mostly a force for greater inequality and a...
Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral
Economists say that inflation is just too much money chasing too few goods. But something else...
The Day of Two Noons (Classic)
(Note: this episode originally ran in 2019.) In the 1800s, catching your train on time was no...
How you fight a squatting goat
Back in 2005, Burt Banks inherited a plot of old family land in Delaware. But when it came time...
Two Indicators: the influencer industry
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut, a doctor or maybe a...
Financial advising while Black
After a successful career in advertising, Erika Williams decided it was time for a change. She...
Note: This episode originally aired in September, 2014. Zoos follow a fundamental principle:...
The quest for the factory-built house
Imagine if we built cars the same way we build houses. First, a typical buyer would meet with the...