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- Planet Money
- 1309264: #487: The Trouble With The Poverty Line
- 1309270: #488: The Secret History Of Your Cable Bill
- 1310277: #489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy
- 1310284: #490: The Real Economy Of Fantasy Sports
- 1310289: #491: The Debt Ceiling, Obamacare And Welfare
- 1310298: #492: M. Erb's Amazon Empire
- 1311305: #493: What's A Bubble? (Nobel Edition)
- 1311312: #494: What Happens When You Just Give Money To Poor People?
- 1311317: #495: The Weird Inner Workings Of The Payday Loan Business
- 1311320: #496: Where The Planet Money T-Shirt Began
- 1311324: #497: Love, Betrayal And The Planet Money T-Shirt
- 1311326: #498: The Last T-Shirt In Colombia
- 1311331: #499: Richard Nixon, Kimchi And The First Clothing Factory In Bangladesh
- 1312338: #500: The Humble Innovation At The Heart Of The Global Economy
- 1312340: #501: A Shirt, A Meat Grinder And The Book Of Everything
- 1312354: #505: A Locked Door, A Secret Meeting And The Birth Of The Fed
- 1312345: #502: The Afterlife Of A T-Shirt
- 1312347: #503: Adding Up The Cost Of The Planet Money T-Shirt
- 1312353: #504: Can Hospitals Save Money By Making Doctors Squirm?
- 1312359: #506: Bell Wars
- 140103: #507: The Rest Of The Story
- 140108: #508: A Bet On The Future Of Humanity
- 140115: #509: Will A Computer Decide Whether You Get Your Next Job?
- 140117: #510: The Birth Of The Minimum Wage
- 140122: #511: Rule Breakers
- 140124: #512: Can Mezcal Save A Village?
- 140129: #513: Dear Economist, I Need A Date?
- 140131: #514: How Bernanke Set Off Tomato Protests In Brazil
- 140236: #515: A Bet Over Bitcoin
- 140238: #516: Why Paying $192 For A 5-Mile Car Ride May Be Rational
- 140245: #517: The Fastest Growing, Least Popular Airline In America
- 140250: #518: How To Bore Someone Into Donating An Organ
- 140252: #519: Wall Street's Image Problem
- 140257: #520: Duke's $30,000 Tuition Discount
- 140259: #521: The Town That Loves Death
- 140364: #522: The Invention Of 'The Economy'
- 140366: #523: The Fight Over Ukraine's Gas Bill
- 140371: #524: Me and Mr. Jones
- 140378: #525: Trouble Inside A Babysitting Economy
- 140380: #526: A Planet Money War
- 140385: #527: The Amazing Shrinking Economy Might Stop Shrinking
- 140387: #528: Money, Work and TV
- 140494: #529: The Last Mile
- 140499: #530: Marijuana, Law School, And Centuries Of Inequality
- 1404101: #531: The Tough, The Sweet and the Nosy
- 1404106: #532: The Wild West Of The Internet
- 1404108: #533: Why Cars From Europe and the US Just Can't Get Along
- 1404115: #534: The History of Light
- 1404120: #535: Humanitarians, For A Price
- 1405122: #536: The Future Of Work Looks Like A UPS Truck
- 1405127: #537: Hold The Music, Just The Lyrics Please
- 1405129: #538: Is A Stradivarius Just A Violin?
- 1405137: #539: What's A Penny Worth?
- 1405141: #540: Great Expectations
- 1405144: #541: Who Owns The Air?
- 1405148: #542: Can An Economy Be Too Good?
- 1405150: #543: A World Without Banks
- 1406157: #544: The M&M Anomaly
- 1406164: #546: Fear, Negativity And Pawn Shops For The Rich
- 1406169: #547: How To Punish A Bank
- 1406171: #548: Project Eavesdrop
- 1406178: #549: A Teenager's Guide to Doing Business in North Korea
- 1407183: #550: When Salaries Aren't Secret
- 1407190: #551: The Case Against Patents
- 1407192: #552: Blockbusters, Bombs And The Price Of A Ticket
- 1407197: #552: The Dollar At The Center Of The World
- 1407199: #554: How The Burrito Became A Sandwich
- 1407204: #555: Why Is The Milk In The Back Of The Store?
- 1407206: #556: Some Assembly Required
- 1407211: #557: Doing Business Like A Refugee
- 1408213: #558: Spending Big Money To Fight Big Money
- 1408220: #559: Detroit's Water Bill
- 1408225: #560: Hunting For The Hundreds
- 1408227: #561: How The Future Looked 50 Years Ago
- 1408234: #562: A Mall Divided
- 1408239: #563: "I Was Wrong"
- 1408241: #564: The Signature
- 1409246: #565: The Story Of Alibaba
- 1409248: #566: The Zoo Economy
- 1409253: #567: Getting Unstuck
- 1409260: #569: How To Divide An Imaginary Pie
- 1409255: Episode 568: Snoops, Hackers And Tin Foil Hats
- 1409262: #570: The Fine Print
- 1409269: #571: Why Raising Money For Ebola Is Hard
- 1410276: # 573: Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing
- 1410274: #572: Jewelers, Futurists And Whistleblowers
- 1410281: #574: The Buffalo Talk-Off
- 1410295: #577: The Kansas Experiment
- 1410290: #576: When Women Stopped Coding
- 1410284: #575: The Fondue Conspiracy
- 1410304: #579: Is The NCAA An Illegal Cartel?
- 1410302: #578: How To Steal A Million Barrels Of Oil
- 1411309: #580: The Other Side Of The Pump
- 1411311: #581: Free Money
- 1411316: #582: Guarding The Secret Path
- 1411318: #583: Cow Noir
- NPR
- NPR: Planet Money Podcast
- Where do holidays like National Potato Chip Day and Argyle Day come from? We trace the roots of one made-up holiday until we find out who is running the global holiday machine. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
- On protests, pasta and forgiven payments. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
- What happens when the iconic symbol of your brand no longer makes sense? Today, HBO tries to evolve their sonic brand. This episode was adapted from the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz. | Subscribe
- When Soul Train first launched in 1970, Black audiences weren't understood as a viable target market. Don Cornelius changed that forever with his weekly TV dance show. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
- Despite costing the same price, a pack of peanut butter M&M's weighs 0.06 ounces less than a pack of milk chocolate M&M's. A trade secret explains why. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
- Planet Money
- When Maddie Messer was 12 years old, she noticed an unfair dynamic in the video games she loved: playing as a man was often free, but she had to pay to play as a woman. So ... she decided to take on the video game industry. | Subscribe to our weekly news
- Is the key to success in financial markets a matter of luck or skill? One former bond manager shares his strategy: Win big by avoiding winning. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter
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