Planet Money
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For the entire history of the food stamp program, the federal government has paid for all the benefits that go out. States pay part of the cost of adminis...
People who have come to the U.S. from a handful ...
Ken is a bush pilot. He used to run an air taxi service in ...
More and more companies are paying to develop a “sonic identity” – a series of sounds, songs, and micro-jingles to help maintain a unified brand.
In this episode, in conjunction with the sound design podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz, we hear the backstory to possibly the most success...
He’d stumbled on a shadow fleet of hundreds of tankers ferrying sanctioned oil out of Russia … ...
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But lately, Treasurys have started to look riskier.
In part because, in...
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Our sister show, The Indicator, is chronicling the evolving business of crime for its Vice Week series. Today, we bring to you two cases of crime in the age of AI.
First, cybercriminals are using our own voices against us. Audio deepfake scams are picking up against individuals but also against businesses. We hear from a bank on how they...
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Well, turns out, it’s quite hard!
We’re in a golden age of tabletop games. Thirty years ago there were around 800 new games each year. Now it is more like 5,000....
The cold chain is the name for the end-to-end refrigeration of our food from farm to truck to warehouse to grocery store and ultimately to our fridges at home. And it’s one of t...
But last year, one of Jane Street’s biggest and most lucrative trading strategies was unexpectedly revealed in a Manhattan courtroom. The news ricocheted around the world. It drew the attention of competitors and ...
Two best friends, one in Gaza and one in Belgium, are now trying to get money in.
But how do you get money into a bank account in Gaza? And how do you get that money out, in Gaza, when there are no function...
It’s no secret that CEOs get paid a ton – and a ton more than the average worker. More than a hundred times than what their average employee makes.
But it wasn’t always this way. So, how did this gap get so vast? And why?
On today’s episode … we go back to a specific moment when the way CEOs were paid got changed. It involves Bill Clinton's campa...
This deal has raised a lot of eyebrows. The U.S. government almost never gets tangled up with businesse...
Dozens of you, our listeners, have written to us about this. Saying things like, “Maybe my yoga teacher side gig is actually my safest bet now,” and “My parents were in real estate, and I never thought I’d say it ... but maybe that’s what I should do?”
If only there were a list that could tell you which jobs are safe from AI. We go...
Enter the watchers. The people who’ve had their eyes trained on central banks all over the world, for years, notebooks out, scribbling down their observations. They’ve been trying to gauge just how independent ...
Back in the internet’s early days, it was easy to get a domain name. They were cheap or even free. The first people to grab them may now be holding onto asset...
And on Monday, Tru...
Today on our final episode of Summer School 2025, we will test your knowledge. We will salute the unsung heroes of government service. And we will pick our valedictorian from among you of the class of 2025.
Editorial Note:
President Trump attempted to fire Lisa Cook, a Biden appointee to the Federal Reserve Board. Our daily podcast, The Indicator, has...
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