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PodSkip has analyzed 14 episodes of Planet Money, averaging 2.4 ads per episode (9% of runtime).
Vacation and why Americans take so little
May 20, 2026
Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is the ultimate economic choice. Every single worker in the European Union is guaranteed four weeks of paid vacation. No…
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Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence
May 15, 2026
If you have a credit card, hope to buy a house, or just want stable grocery prices – let’s talk about the future of Fed independence! It’s impossibly important for the Federal Reserve to steer…
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The secret meeting that launched OPEC
May 13, 2026
Recently, a listener wrote in with a question about OPEC and oil prices. She was prepping for a camping trip… thinking about how much it costs to fill up her diesel-guzzling camper van at the pump…
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Diary of a WNBA negotiator
May 08, 2026
Today the WNBA season tips off, but Dallas Wings veteran forward Alysha Clark has already won a high-stakes competition. She – and a Nobel Prize winning economist – were on the team that negotiated a…
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How we got free agents in baseball
May 06, 2026
Curt Flood was the best center fielder in baseball and one of the game’s highest paid players. He took the St. Louis Cardinals to the World Series three times. Then he got traded to the Phillies. He…
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How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
May 01, 2026
In the world of commercial publishing, there are few crowning achievements more coveted than a place on the New York Times Best Seller List. But how does a book actually end up there? There is, of…
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Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
Apr 29, 2026
It’s way more than fuel costs that pushed Spirit Airlines to the brink of liquidation and led President Trump to muse about “buying” them. Many low cost airlines are struggling due to a canny and…
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Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China
Apr 24, 2026
At one point in history, one U.S. company monopolized the rare earths industry. Then China took over the industry. Can the U.S. bring it back? Rare earths are critical to making, like, everything…
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Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
Apr 22, 2026
We talk with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and Chief Economist at Redfin Daryl Fairweather about two of the biggest issues of our time: AI and housing. We have been crisscrossing America doing live…
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Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
Apr 17, 2026
Have you noticed a lot of young people getting into antenna-maxxing as alpha? Or, maybe searching for any bit of copium after they fat-fingered and got rinsed? Or maybe they farmed during a yes-fest…
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How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
Apr 14, 2026
The United States has been at war with Iran since February 28th. And for a month and a half, Iran’s main leverage over the U.S. has been their control over the Strait of Hormuz — a key global…
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BOOKstore Economics
Apr 10, 2026
How do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a bookstore is a highly valuable and contested piece of…
A pro-worker experiment in private equity
Apr 08, 2026
Live event info and tickets here. If your company got bought by a private equity firm, how would you feel? Maybe a little nervous? You might find yourself wondering if there will be layoffs. And…
Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
Apr 03, 2026
Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a sort of product-specific inflation), shrink the size of the…
Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
Apr 01, 2026
Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting…
The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
Mar 27, 2026
LIVE SHOW TOUR INFO HERE. New stories, live tapings, special guests, book signings and more. What would you build on a piece of land when all the normal rules go out the window? On today’s show, how…
Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
Mar 25, 2026
When you come across a book at a yard sale or a bookstore, you might pay more attention to the words between the covers than the physical form of the book itself. But content and the form are both…
Inside a BOOK auction
Mar 20, 2026
In the age of TikTok and Polymarket, it can be easy to overlook the humble book. But books are one of the most influential technologies ever invented. From “The Wealth of Nations” to “Das Kapital,”…
The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
Mar 18, 2026
The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've almost certainly seen them at the pet store or the fish tank at your dentist's…
Chef vs. Robot
Mar 13, 2026
Robby the chef has lots of endearing qualities. He can make over 5000 dishes, he’s a consistent cook, and he’s never late for work. But he’s not a human. It is a 750 lb. stainless steel robot. With a…
The laws of the office revisited
Mar 11, 2026
Live event info and tickets here. If something is going wrong in your workplace, there's probably a law that explains why. Meetings always seem long, and never end early? There’s Parkinson’s Law…
Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
Mar 06, 2026
What do we want from sports? The very best athletes competing as hard as they know how, putting all their effort and training and natural ability to the test against their opponents. But this time of…
The Business of Heated Rivalry
Mar 04, 2026
Heated Rivalry , the steamy hockey romance show, was made for about $2 million per episode. That is remarkably cheap for an hour-long drama. Today on the show, a conversation with Heated Rivalry…
Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
Feb 27, 2026
The world of science has been stuck in an existential crisis over whether we actually know the things we thought we knew. Re-running an old study today doesn't always yield the same result. Same with…
The ICE hiring boom
Feb 25, 2026
Live event info and tickets here . ICE is scaling up, with rapid new hiring. So we ask, has training new officers changed? At what cost? Also, the Trump administration has plans to pour billions of…
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
Feb 21, 2026
Live event info and tickets here. The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal. On today’s show: Why were those tariffs…
How to get what Greenland has, with permission
Feb 18, 2026
Book tour and ticket info here. Greenland has said it is not for sale. Denmark has said it can’t even legally sell Greenland. And at a security conference in Munich over the weekend, U.S. lawmakers…
Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
Feb 13, 2026
Book tour event details and ticket info here . An iconic cartoon character liberated from copyright, journalism from the world of competitive spreadsheeting, a controversial piece of US currency…
The Invention Invention
Feb 11, 2026
Book tour tickets and details here . Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to…
Iran, protests, and sanctions
Feb 06, 2026
Book tour tickets and details here . The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this time – they are also motivated by economic hardship. Hardship…