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Anatomy of a movie market
Oct 16, 2026
Before an independent movie makes it to a streaming platform or a theater near you, it first needs to survive an artistic and economic gauntlet. And even for those movies that make it into elite film…
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Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.
Oct 14, 2026
Fifty years ago, scientists pioneering a terrifying gene-splicing technology figured out a way to collectively hit pause. Can we do it again with AI? We ask because some top AI industry leaders are…
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Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?
Oct 09, 2026
Companies are getting billions of dollars back. How about us? It seems simple, right? We paid higher prices for imported goods because of tariffs. Then the tariffs were ruled illegal. Courts said the…
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Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam)
Oct 07, 2026
Charles Ponzi was down on his luck. In 1919, the Italian immigrant had spent a decade and a half in the U.S. He was looking for a way to get rich and tried his hand at everything — including…
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Where all those weird new drinks are coming from
Oct 02, 2026
It's getting pretty wild in the beverage aisle these days — from the rainbow wall of seltzers, to the increasingly strange flavors of Pepsi, to the new "functional" sodas with added fiber or…
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Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?
Sep 30, 2026
Very soon, Social Security may not have enough money to make full payments to retirees. Very soon. Like by 2032, just six years from now. So what are we gonna do about it? Today on the show, we look…
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Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs
Sep 25, 2026
Wanna know who is really in the top 1%? And how they use their influence? It may not be who you think.Look beyond Silicon Valley. Look beyond Wall Street. Look beyond the “oligarchs”. There's a much…
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Is our national debt finally too much? (update)
Sep 23, 2026
(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2024.)$40,000,000,000,000. Four commas. Thirteen zeroes. It’s an eye-popping, almost infinite-sounding pile of money. And every time the debt passes…
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The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything
Sep 18, 2026
Did a pizza restaurant’s humble status page change how we wait forever? When you order a Lyft or Uber, you get texts every few minutes about your car approaching and arriving. When you have a package…
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How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators)
Sep 16, 2026
Margin borrowing and sports gambling “investments” are both on the rise! Today on the show, two stories from Planet Money’s daily podcast The Indicator about the ways investing is changing, and…
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The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis
Sep 11, 2026
There is a new type of loan that is sweeping through the country right now. It’s advertised as a super quick and super easy way to get a mortgage to buy a home. In recent years, Wall Street has been…
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Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation
Sep 09, 2026
In this economy it is boom times and doom times all at once. The statistics aren’t really capturing it. K-shaped only goes so far as a metaphor. So … we asked you to help. And you delivered! One one…
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Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake
Sep 04, 2026
One week ago, President Trump announced a deal that would give the “U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer.”The exact…
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Love in the time of Palantir
Sep 02, 2026
To a lot of people, Palantir is a mystery — what does the company know, what data do they have, and (if they have it) what do they do with it all? We dig into that mystery and take you to a singles…
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Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus)
Aug 30, 2026
The brilliance of "9 to 5" is that it is catchy even though it’s also kinda depressing. You will be dancing along. You're enjoying it. And, then when you really listen to the lyrics, you're like…
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Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified"
Aug 28, 2026
The produce aisle is changing. You’ve noticed this, I’m sure. It is now full of superstar fruits and vegetables: The Honeycrisp apple, The Cotton Candy grape, The Cuties mandarin orange. They stand…
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The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)
Aug 26, 2026
This episode is packed with your best economic ideas from around the world and a penguin interview. It all comes together in this final session of Summer School 2026.Pack your parka, we’re headed to…
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Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers
Aug 21, 2026
There’s a room where the fates of retail products are decided. Will they make it onto the shelves of the big box stores? Usually the rest of us can’t get inside the room where decisions are made –…
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Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)
Aug 19, 2026
This week’s stop on our world tour - Korea. A country divided into two very different power structures since the end of WWII. Today South Korea is the maker of some of the world’s favorite exports –…
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You bet your life insurance
Aug 14, 2026
Some of the biggest firms on Wall Street are, at this very moment, waiting for thousands of strangers to die to reap their returns. Because there’s a market for life insurance policies. And it’s…
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Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)
Aug 12, 2026
Just about everyone in Argentina is an expert in inflation and whether they like it or not, economic flexibility. Can we learn from them? Over the years, we at Planet Money have checked in on…
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Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?
Aug 07, 2026
When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire — that’s one thing. When they can, and just don’t want to — that’s trickier.It used to be legal to force people to retire when they hit a…
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Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)
Aug 05, 2026
Imagine a nation where, for the residents, land is for the claiming. You walk down the street, pick out a nice looking plot of land, and just plop down a marker. No rent, no taxes, no deed – just…
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What makes a toy go viral
Jul 31, 2026
Squishy, slimy, fidgety toys are having a moment. But it’s more than just an anxiety-soothing, social-media fueled trend – these toys are reshaping how toys get made.Today on the show, we have the…
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How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)
Jul 29, 2026
Let’s call it the luxury of restraint. This is what enabled Norway to avoid the fate of so many other countries when they discovered oil and it changed the mix of their economy overnight.Norway! It’s…
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Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)
Jul 24, 2026
Let’s head to a small town in Kenya that’s become globally famous for helping economists answer some of the biggest questions facing humanity.In Kenya and Nigeria, economics isn’t just theory, it’s…
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Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine
Jul 22, 2026
The cyclospora outbreak that’s sickening thousands of Americans got us interested in the rise of Big Lettuce, and the challenges of keeping it clean. So on today’s show, we tell you just how much…
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New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
Jul 21, 2026
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation in the wake of George Floyd's killing. Antonio arrived in…
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Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?
Jul 17, 2026
As the World Cup comes to a close, so does a massive real-time experiment happening just around the edges. Major League Soccer – the top men’s professional soccer league in the U.S. and Canada – has…
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Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)
Jul 15, 2026
China’s turbocharged growth may have made it rich, but now it has to deal with rich country problems. High-speed trains that connect every town. Gleaming new bridges and skyscrapers. An apartment (or…
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