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Fundraising is a staple of the school experience in the U.S. There's an assembly showing off all the prizes kids can win by selling enough wrapping pa...
Réka Juhász is a professor of economics at the University of British Columbia, and she studies what's known as industrial policy. That's the general t...
The Department of Defense's proposed budget for 2024 is $842 billion. That is about 3.5% of the U.S.'s GDP. The military buys everything from pens and...
The Genco Picardy is not an American ship. It doesn't pay U.S. taxes, none of its crew are U.S. nationals, and when it sailed through the Red Sea last...
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Keith King was upset when his marriage ended. His wife had cheated, and his family broke apart. And that's when he learned about a very old type of la...
There are tons of markets that don't exist because people just don't want to allow a market – for whatever reason, people feel icky about putting a pr...
It's Groundhog Day, and the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in western Pennsylvania. And, just like last year, all anyone can talk abou...
Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.German families in the 60s loved tasty, cheap American-raised chicken that was suddenly coming in after the...
Our friends at NPR's news quiz Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! recently had a very Planet Money guest on their show: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. They...
At around 1 a.m. on the morning of November 15, 1994, Captain Prentice "Skip" Strong III woke to a distress call. Skip was the new captain of an oil t...
On today's episode, we have three big economic ideas for your consideration – ideas that could potentially improve the economy and make us more effici...
After very high inflation, the United States is finally feeling some relief in the form of "disinflation." But, why exactly has inflation slowed down?...
On today's show, we look at two indicators of the economic disruptions of the war in Gaza and try to trace how far they will reach. We start in the Re...
When you think of a potato, one state probably comes to mind: Idaho. But for much of American history, Maine was home to the nation's largest potato c...
There's this fundamental question in economics that has proven really hard to answer: What's a good way to help people out of poverty? The old-school...
Picture the Pacific Ocean of the 16th century. Spanish Galleons sail the wide open seas, carrying precious cargo like silver, porcelain, and textiles....
It's that time of year again! Our annual year-end tradition of checking in on the stories we've reported and the people we met along the way.We'll hea...
Today on the show, hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator debate the economic indicators of this year and next year.First up, we try to identify th...
