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- Is this how the great international borrowing spree ends?31 Oct 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.28 Oct 2026 · Full episode 31 min
- How surveillance crept up on us23 Oct 2026 · Full episode 35 min
- We try to fix election polling (update)21 Oct 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- Anatomy of a movie market16 Oct 2026 · Full episode 32 min
- Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.14 Oct 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?9 Oct 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam)7 Oct 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Where all those weird new drinks are coming from2 Oct 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?30 Sep 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs25 Sep 2026 · Full episode 31 min
- Is our national debt finally too much? (update)23 Sep 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything18 Sep 2026 · Full episode 32 min
- How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators)16 Sep 2026 · Full episode 18 min
- The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis11 Sep 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation9 Sep 2026 · Full episode 24 min
- Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake5 Sep 2026 · Full episode 25 min
- Love in the time of Palantir2 Sep 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus)30 Aug 2026 · Full episode 23 min
- Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified"28 Aug 2026 · Full episode 34 min
- The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)26 Aug 2026 · Full episode 41 min
- Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers21 Aug 2026 · Full episode 38 min
- Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)19 Aug 2026 · Full episode 40 min
- You bet your life insurance14 Aug 2026 · Full episode 39 min
- Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)12 Aug 2026 · Full episode 39 min
- Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?7 Aug 2026 · Full episode 34 min
- Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)5 Aug 2026 · Full episode 40 min
- What makes a toy go viral31 Jul 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)29 Jul 2026 · Full episode 39 min
- Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)24 Jul 2026 · Full episode 39 min
- Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine22 Jul 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast21 Jul 2026 · Full episode 3 min
- Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?17 Jul 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)15 Jul 2026 · Full episode 39 min
- Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal10 Jul 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)8 Jul 2026 · Full episode 37 min
- How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)3 Jul 2026 · Full episode 18 min
- Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?1 Jul 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?26 Jun 2026 · Full episode 27 min
- Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets24 Jun 2026 · Full episode 23 min
- The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough19 Jun 2026 · Full episode 33 min
- Can computer hackers get inside your mind?17 Jun 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?12 Jun 2026 · Full episode 25 min
- Two indicators for lowering the rent10 Jun 2026 · Full episode 18 min
- Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?5 Jun 2026 · Full episode 35 min
- There's no business like dough business3 Jun 2026 · Full episode 27 min
- The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food29 May 2026 · Full episode 36 min
- The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes27 May 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake22 May 2026 · Full episode 27 min
- Vacation and why Americans take so little20 May 2026 · Full episode 25 min
- Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence15 May 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- The secret meeting that launched OPEC13 May 2026 · Full episode 28 min
- Diary of a WNBA negotiator9 May 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- How we got free agents in baseball6 May 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- How to make a BOOK into a bestseller2 May 2026 · Full episode 47 min
- Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights29 Apr 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China24 Apr 2026 · Full episode 34 min
- Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs22 Apr 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- Do prediction market bettors make anything better?18 Apr 2026 · Full episode 32 min
- How to get through the Strait of Hormuz14 Apr 2026 · Full episode 19 min
- BOOKstore Economics10 Apr 2026 · Full episode 41 min
- A pro-worker experiment in private equity8 Apr 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation4 Apr 2026 · Full episode 34 min
- Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment2 Apr 2026 · Full episode 28 min
- The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop28 Mar 2026 · Full episode 22 min
- Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain26 Mar 2026 · Full episode 47 min
- Inside a BOOK auction21 Mar 2026 · Full episode 43 min
- The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon18 Mar 2026 · Full episode 33 min
- Chef vs. Robot13 Mar 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- The laws of the office revisited11 Mar 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem6 Mar 2026 · Full episode 30 min
- The Business of Heated Rivalry4 Mar 2026 · Full episode 28 min
- Don't hate the replicator, hate the game27 Feb 2026 · Full episode 36 min
- The ICE hiring boom25 Feb 2026 · Full episode 18 min
- The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?21 Feb 2026 · Full episode 26 min
- How to get what Greenland has, with permission18 Feb 2026 · Full episode 27 min
- Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines13 Feb 2026 · Full episode 32 min
- The Invention Invention11 Feb 2026 · Full episode 31 min
- Iran, protests, and sanctions7 Feb 2026 · Full episode 33 min
- Riding with the repo man (update)4 Feb 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?31 Jan 2026 · Full episode 28 min
- Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?28 Jan 2026 · Full episode 28 min
- A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch24 Jan 2026 · Full episode 32 min
- When designing a GAME, what's in a name?22 Jan 2026 · Full episode 36 min
- Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty17 Jan 2026 · Full episode 33 min
- How much money President Trump and his family have made14 Jan 2026 · Full episode 31 min
- So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.10 Jan 2026 · Full episode 25 min
- How Black hair care grew Black power7 Jan 2026 · Full episode 29 min
- Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)4 Jan 2026 · Full episode 22 min
- Indicators of the Year, Past and Future31 Dec 2025 · Full episode 18 min
- Why economists got free trade with China so wrong30 Dec 2025 · Full episode 26 min
- The Rest of the Story, 202526 Dec 2025 · Full episode 28 min
- The summer I turned binge-y24 Dec 2025 · Full episode 31 min
- What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill20 Dec 2025 · Full episode 32 min
- PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition17 Dec 2025 · Full episode 55 min
- When Chicago pawned its parking meters12 Dec 2025 · Full episode 31 min
- Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear10 Dec 2025 · Full episode 36 min
- How hurricanes became a hot investment5 Dec 2025 · Full episode 31 min
- Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)3 Dec 2025 · Full episode 19 min
- Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)28 Nov 2025 · Full episode 25 min