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What Kamala Harris' economic agenda might look like

2024/7/24

Last weekend we were all thrown for a loop when President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential

The color monopoly

2024/7/20

In 2022, artist Stuart Semple opened up his laptop to find that all his designs had turned black ove

Summer School 2: The golden ages of labor and looms

2024/7/17

Who has the power? Workers or bosses? It changes through the ages, though it's usually the bosses. T

Rooftop solar's dark side

2024/7/12

4.5 million households in the U.S. have solar panels on their homes. Most of those customers are hap

Summer School 1: An Economic History of the World

2024/7/10

Planet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origi

How flying got so bad (or did it?)

2024/7/5

We often hear that air travel is worse than it's ever been. Gone are the days when airplanes touted

The two companies driving the modern economy

2024/7/3

At the core of most of the electronics we use today are some very tiny, very powerful chips. Semicon

Do immigrants really take jobs and lower wages?

2024/6/29

We wade into the heated debate over immigrants' impact on the labor market. When the number of worke

The Carriage Tax (Update)

2024/6/26

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in

The Vapes of Wrath

2024/6/21

When the vape brand Juul first hit the market back in 2015, e-cigarettes were in a kind of regulator

Why is everyone talking about Musk's money?

2024/6/19

8 chapters Transcribed

We've lived amongst Elon Musk headlines for so long now that it's easy to forget just how much he so

What's with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved.

2024/6/14

There's a behind the scenes industry that helps big brands decide questions like: How big should a b

Bringing a tariff to a graphite fight

2024/6/12

7 chapters Transcribed

Graphite is sort of the one-hit wonder of minerals. And that hit? Pencils. Everyone loves to talk ab

How much national debt is too much?

2024/6/7

Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national de

The history of light (classic)

2024/6/5

For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This

How the FBI's fake cell phone company put criminals into real jail cells

2024/5/31