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#921: Tales From The Parking Lot
Three stories: A tire-booting vigilante, a surge price conspiracy, and the civil rights fight over parking tickets.
2019-06-21Länk till avsnitt
#920: What Should We Be Worried About?
The economic recovery turns 10 this month. Don't get too comfortable. There's plenty to be worried about.
2019-06-19Länk till avsnitt
#919: Are Cities Overrated?
Big cities used to be the land of opportunity for most people. But with changes in work, some economists are wondering: Are cities overrated?
2019-06-14Länk till avsnitt
#590: The Planet Money Workout
Gyms don't want you to workout. Or at least, not often. It's better for business that way. Economics explains why.
2019-06-12Länk till avsnitt
#918: The Day Of Two Noons
People didn't always know what time it was. But in the nineteenth century, a high school principal, a scientist, and a railroad bureaucrat synchronized the nation.
2019-06-07Länk till avsnitt
#651: The Salmon Taboo
In Japan, salmon used to be garbage fish. Today, it's a delicacy. How one Norwegian with a lot of extra fish changed the tastes of a nation.
2019-06-05Länk till avsnitt
#917: Quit Threat!
Sometimes an economy can get so strong the power dynamic between bosses and workers flips: Full employment. Are we there yet?
2019-05-31Länk till avsnitt
#916: The Whistleblower Whisperer
Jordan Thomas is a lawyer who represents some of Wall Street's biggest whistleblowers. The life that led him here is extraordinary.
2019-05-29Länk till avsnitt
#915: How To Meddle In An Election
In which someone runs a science experiment on an actual election, on actual voters, to test the persuasive power of ethically sketchy methods.
2019-05-24Länk till avsnitt
#914: Trump and Deutsche, A Long Affair
After Donald Trump's companies declared four bankruptcies, several major banks stopped loaning him money. But Deutsche Bank didn't.
2019-05-23Länk till avsnitt
#913: Counting The Homeless
From renting hotels to a jobs report-like census in the night, we look at ways communities are helping the homeless.
2019-05-18Länk till avsnitt
#407: A Mathematician, The Last Supper, And The Birth Of Accounting
The story of an innovation that changed the way the world works, and of the man who made this innovation possible: Luca Pacioli.
2019-05-15Länk till avsnitt
#912: How Uncle Jamie Broke Jeopardy
James Holzhauer took data, probability and a lot of practice with a fake buzzer, and turned it into a fortune on a game show.
2019-05-10Länk till avsnitt
#911: You Asked The Listener Question Hotline
We answer a bunch of the questions you asked ? and even one you *didn't* ask.
2019-05-08Länk till avsnitt
#910: Economics, Sexism, Data
A young economist holds a mirror up to her field. And starts a national conversation about women in economics.
2019-05-03Länk till avsnitt
#416: Why The Price of Coke Didn't Change For 70 years
For 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola stayed a nickel. Why? The answer includes a half a million vending machines and a 7.5 cent coin.
2019-05-01Länk till avsnitt
#909: Dollar Stores Vs Lettuce
Every six hours a new dollar store opens in the U.S. Are they killing grocery stores?
2019-04-27Länk till avsnitt
#908: I Am Not A Robot
The remarkable story of the online "CAPTCHA" tests we've all taken to prove that we're not robots.
2019-04-24Länk till avsnitt
#907: Two Spring Indicators
The Indicator from Planet Money explores trade wars, peanuts, hurricanes, and happiness.
2019-04-19Länk till avsnitt
#644: How Much Does This Cow Weigh?
We wanted to understand an eerie phenomenon that drives everything from the stock market to the price of orange juice. So we asked you to guess the weight of a cow.
2019-04-17Länk till avsnitt
#906: The Chicago Boys, Part II
How a ruthless dictator, and a bunch of economists known as the Chicago Boys, took Chile from socialism to capitalism.
2019-04-12Länk till avsnitt
#905: The Chicago Boys, Part I
In the late 1950s and early '60s a handful of Chilean students went to study economics at the University of Chicago. What they learned changed their country.
2019-04-11Länk till avsnitt
#904: Joke Theft
Copyrighting comedy is expensive. So comedians have devised an informal system of sanctions to protect their jokes from theft. Sometimes it works.
2019-04-06Länk till avsnitt
#760: Tax Hero
Joe Bankman, professor at Stanford, figured out a way to make filing your taxes easy and painless. Then the tax lobby found out about it.
2019-04-04Länk till avsnitt
#903: A New Way To Pay For College
Some colleges are offering students a new way to pay. It's not a scholarship. It's not a loan. It's more like the students are selling stock in themselves.
2019-03-29Länk till avsnitt
#902: The Phoebus Cartel
The story behind two sneaky forces that drive us to buy more products, more often: Planned obsolescence and psychological obsolescence.
2019-03-28Länk till avsnitt
#901: Bad Cops Are Expensive
There's an industry of people working to eliminate bad police behavior. They're not activists or protestors. They're insurers.
2019-03-22Länk till avsnitt
#189: Why A Dead Shark Costs $12 Million
Today's show is about the fickle market for art. What makes a dead shark cost $12 million, and a photo of steel wool that looks like a tornado cost only $1,265?
2019-03-20Länk till avsnitt
#900: The Stolen Company
When an American company named ABRO learns their goods are being counterfeited in China, they start their own trade war.
2019-03-15Länk till avsnitt
#724: Cat Scam
The internet was supposed to get rid of middlemen--but instead they are taking over the global economy.
2019-03-13Länk till avsnitt
#899: Mexico Fights The Fuel Pirates
Thieves are stealing billions of dollars worth of gasoline in Mexico. The President is taking drastic action to cut them off, and it comes at a serious cost. Content warning: Audio of deadly pipeline explosion.
2019-03-08Länk till avsnitt
#785: The Starbury
The story of an NBA All-Star and an experiment: To make a desirable basketball shoe cheap enough for anyone.
2019-03-07Länk till avsnitt
#898: Happy Fed Independence Day
The story of the day the Federal Reserve got its independence and the fight?an actual physical fight?to keep it.
2019-03-02Länk till avsnitt
#897: New Orleans Vs. Airbnb
Airbnb has changed New Orleans. And now landlords and preservationists are fighting over the future of the city.
2019-02-28Länk till avsnitt
Antitrust 3: Big Tech
What does the rise of dominant tech companies say about competition and the state of antitrust law? Third in a series.
2019-02-22Länk till avsnitt
Antitrust 2: The Paradox
How Robert Bork won the fight over the very meaning of competition in America, and paved the way for some of the biggest companies we've ever seen.
2019-02-20Länk till avsnitt
Antitrust 1: Standard Oil
At the turn of the 20th century, Ida Tarbell investigated John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. What she discovered changed the economy of the United States.
2019-02-15Länk till avsnitt
#418: A Fake Bank For Money Laundering Run By The Government
To catch drug traffickers, the U.S. government tried something it had never tried before. It set up and ran a fake offshore bank for money laundering. Fake name. Fake employees. Real drug money.
2019-02-14Länk till avsnitt
#893: Our Valentines 2019
We give a shout out to the stuff we've been obsessing over in the office ? those stories that were so good, we wished we had thought of them ourselves.
2019-02-08Länk till avsnitt
#892: The Lost Plane
In December, a commercial flight had to make an emergency landing in Iran. They discovered that landing there would be easy. Getting out ? much, much harder.
2019-02-07Länk till avsnitt
#891: Who Won The Bet Over Bitcoin?
Five years ago, two sides met on our show to make a bet about the future of bitcoin. Today, we announce the winner.
2019-02-01Länk till avsnitt
#825: Who Started The Wildfire?
After a wildfire, teams of investigators start combing the wreckage for clues. Finding the cause means, maybe, finding someone to pay. But where's the line between a natural disaster and a human one?
2019-01-30Länk till avsnitt
#890: The Division Problem
Today on the show, we take on one of life's most vexing problems: Sharing.
2019-01-25Länk till avsnitt
#688: Brilliant Vs. Boring
John Bogle died last week. His creation ? the index fund ? changed investing. Today, how his invention set off a million dollar bet between some of the biggest brains on Wall Street, including Warren Buffett.
2019-01-23Länk till avsnitt
#889: The Pay-What-You-Want Experiment
In 2010, Panera launched several pay-what-you-want cafes. On today's show: How this charitable experiment worked out.
2019-01-18Länk till avsnitt
#888: The First Shutdown
In 1879, Congress and the President were locked in a battle over the rights of African-Americans. It led to the first government shutdown.
2019-01-17Länk till avsnitt
#887: You Asked For It, Yet Again
On today's show we answer questions about silver dollars, Venmo, and Brexit. Why? Because you asked!
2019-01-12Länk till avsnitt
#690: All In
We go inside a professional poker tournament, where some of the smartest betting takes place behind the scenes.
2019-01-09Länk till avsnitt
#886: The Price of a Hack
Hackers are an expensive headache for companies. But there might be a simple economic fix.
2019-01-04Länk till avsnitt
#885: Do It For Your Country
People are the engine that fuels an economy. But what happens when you start running out of people?
2019-01-02Länk till avsnitt