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When Trump met crypto
In 2019, President Trump tweeted: "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies." Today, the...
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Econ Battle Zone is back! On today's episode Mary Childs and Kenny Malone enter Econ Battle Stadium...
EscucharThe U.S. is the world's bribery cop. Is that about to change?
The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called the...
EscucharJay & Shai's debt ceiling adventure (Update)
Note: A version of this episode first ran in 2023.Every year, the U.S. government spends more money...
EscucharWhy I joined DOGE
What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency,...
EscucharAre Trump's tariffs legal?
When President Trump announced his sweeping new tariffs this year, many trade law experts were startled....
EscucharWhen Chinese manufacturing met Small Town, USA
Over the past decade, politicians from both parties have courted American voters with an enticing economic...
EscucharTrump's crypto interests (Two Indicators)
Today on the show – our crypto president. Just before President Donald Trump began his second administration...
EscucharThe U.S.-China trade war, according to game theory
Over the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless...
EscucharWhy does the government fund research at universities?
American universities are where people go to learn and teach. They're also where research and development...
EscucharThe secret world behind those scammy text messages
You might have seen these texts before. The scam starts innocently enough. Maybe it's a "Long time no...
EscucharHow economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming
Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral...
EscucharThe 145% tariff already did its damage
Even though the 145% tariff on Chinese imports only lasted a month, it already inflicted its scars on...
EscucharWhat happened to U.S. farmers during the last trade war
The U.S. exports billions of dollars worth of agricultural products each year — things like soybeans,...
EscucharIs the reign of the dollar over?
For decades, dollars have been the world's common financial language. Central banks everywhere hold...
EscucharWhat "Made in China" actually means
Virtually every product brought into the United States must have a so-called "country of origin." Think...
EscucharWhy it's so hard to find a public toilet
Why is it so hard to find a bathroom when you need one? In the U.S., we used to have lots of publicly...
EscucharPlanet Money complains. To learn.
On today's show: we're ... venting.We at Planet Money are an ensemble show – each with different curiosities...
EscucharHow 23andMe's bankruptcy led to a run on the gene bank
Reporter Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi's Aunt Vovi signed up for 23andMe back in 2017, hoping to learn more about...
EscucharA primer on the Federal Reserve's independence
President Donald Trump has been loudly critical of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for years now....
EscucharHow much for that egg
Recently, one of our NPR colleagues wrote a message to all of NPR saying he had extra eggs to sell for...
EscucharOIRA: The tiny office that's about to remake the federal government
OIRA — the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — is an obscure, but powerful federal office...
EscucharTrade war dispatch from Canada
How do you run a business when a trade war is brewing? As President Trump's tariffs kick in - or are...
EscucharDo trade deficits matter?
At the heart of President Trump's tariffs is this idea that we should not be buying more from other...
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