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Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie

The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped...

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Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police

In 1978, a young man named Mike Shanks started a moving business in the north end of Seattle. It...

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Twins (classic)

Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like "Can you read each other's minds?" or...

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The 60-day job race

People come from all over the world to work in U.S. tech. And during the tech boom years, the...

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Two Indicators: The economics of innovation

Innovation is crucial for game-changing advancements in society, whether it's treatments for...

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The town that changed economics

In the early 90s, when a young economist named Michael Kremer finished his PhD, there had been a...

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The Spider-Man Problem (update)

(Note: This episode originally ran back in 2022.) This past weekend, Spider-Man: Across the...

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AI Podcast 3.0: Dial M for Mechanization

It's the thrilling conclusion to our three-part series on AI — the world premiere of the first...

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AI Podcast 2.0: The host in the machine

In Part 1 of this series, AI proved that it could use real research and real interviews to write...

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AI Podcast 1.0: Rise of the machines

We used to think some jobs were safe from automation. Though machines have transformed industries...

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Green energy gridlock

Lyle Jack wants to build a wind farm on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. But to make...

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Predictions: Jobs!

It's time for another installment of ... Planet Money Predictions! *air horn* Last year, we...

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How AI could help rebuild the middle class

For the last four decades, technology has been mostly a force for greater inequality and a...

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Inflation and the Profit-Price Spiral

Economists say that inflation is just too much money chasing too few goods. But something else...

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The Day of Two Noons (Classic)

(Note: this episode originally ran in 2019.) In the 1800s, catching your train on time was no...

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How you fight a squatting goat

Back in 2005, Burt Banks inherited a plot of old family land in Delaware. But when it came time...

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Two Indicators: the influencer industry

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up? An astronaut, a doctor or maybe a...

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Financial advising while Black

After a successful career in advertising, Erika Williams decided it was time for a change. She...

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The zoo economy (classic)

Note: This episode originally aired in September, 2014. Zoos follow a fundamental principle:...

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The quest for the factory-built house

Imagine if we built cars the same way we build houses. First, a typical buyer would meet with the...

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