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The habitat banker
Our planet is in serious trouble. There are a million species of plants and animals in danger of extinction,...
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Sports gambling isn't exactly a financial market, but it rhymes with financial markets. What happens...
EscucharA Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality
Why do some nations fail and others succeed?In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed...
EscucharWorst. Tariffs. Ever. (update)
The Smoot Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great Depression. What can...
EscucharThere Will Be Flood
Windell Curole spent decades working to protect his community in southern Louisiana from the destructive...
EscucharGeorge Soros vs. the Bank of England
As people learn more about Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, one story comes...
EscucharHow useful, really, are the steps you can take after a data breach?
The dreaded data breach notification... It tells you your personal data's been compromised and suggests...
EscucharWhy you bought your couch
You probably own a chair or a table or a sofa. And you probably think you know why you bought it. Because...
EscucharTitle Pirates
A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner....
EscucharThe long view of economics and immigration (Two Indicators)
Mass deportations. What would actually happen—economically—if the President-elect follows through...
EscucharThe great German land lottery
Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung,...
EscucharThe strange way the world's fastest microchips are made
This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies...
EscucharWhat markets bet President Trump will do
On the day after the election, Wall Street responded in a dramatic way. Some stocks went way up, others...
EscucharMoving to the American dream? (update)
Back in the 90s, the federal government ran a bold experiment, giving people vouchers to move out of...
EscucharThe veteran loan calamity
Ray and Becky Queen live in rural Oklahoma with their kids (and chickens). The Queens were able to buy...
EscucharSo your data was stolen in a data breach
If you... exist in the world, it's likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing...
EscucharWhy do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs?
There's something strange going on in hospitals. Cheap, common drugs that nurses use every day seem...
EscucharRomance on the screen and on the page: Two Indicators
On today's show, we have two stories from The Indicator, Planet Money's daily podcast. They just launched...
EscucharThe Subscription Trap
Over the past two decades, there's been a sort of tectonic economic shift happening under our feet....
EscucharWe asked 188 economists. And the survey says...
(For our story on this year's Nobel in Economics, check out our daily show, The Indicator!)Let's face...
EscucharSo imPORTant: Bananas, frogs, and... Bob's??
Even in our modern world with planes and jets and drones, the vast majority of goods are moved around...
EscucharCan cap and trade work in the US?
Recently, the state of Washington embarked on an ambitious new plan to combat climate change. Taking...
EscucharWhat's up with all the ads for law firms?
The lawyer commercial is almost an art form unto itself. Learned practitioners of the law doing whatever...
EscucharHow Venezuela imploded (update)
(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in 2016.)Back in 2016, things were pretty bad in Venezuela....
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