Planet Money
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The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis
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Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation
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Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake
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Love in the time of Palantir
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Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus)
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Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified"
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The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School)
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Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers
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Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School)
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You bet your life insurance
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Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School)
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Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?
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Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School)
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What makes a toy go viral
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How to beat the resource curse in Norway (Summer School)
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Piles of cash and a town of solutions in Kenya, Nigeria (Summer School)
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Big Lettuce meets Small Intestine
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New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
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Can World Cup mania grow MLS in the U.S.?
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Building things and breaking things in China (Summer School World Tour)
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Seven allegedly fake Chanel bags vs The RealReal
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Our mission: Find the world’s best economic ideas (Summer School World Tour)
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How to win a penalty shootout (with game theory)
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Can the Trump administration make college cheaper?
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We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?
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Before Kalshi and Polymarket there was the Iowa Electronic Markets
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The real horror of ‘Alien’ and how it explains why we’re not paid enough
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Can computer hackers get inside your mind?
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It’s my tree. Why can’t I cut it down?
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Two indicators for lowering the rent
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Why is there a supplement craze if they don’t even work?
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There's no business like dough business
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The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food
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The leaked tapes that show how the rich avoid taxes
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The giant factory town that might be a giant mistake
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Vacation and why Americans take so little
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Jerome Powell and the Future of Fed Independence
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The secret meeting that launched OPEC
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Diary of a WNBA negotiator
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How we got free agents in baseball
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How to make a BOOK into a bestseller
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Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
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Battlefield rare earths: How the U.S. lost to China
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Live: Anthropic co-founder on AI and jobs
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Do prediction market bettors make anything better?
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How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
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BOOKstore Economics
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A pro-worker experiment in private equity
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Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
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Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
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The skyscrapers that NIMBYs and zoning couldn't stop
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Our BOOK vs. the global supply chain
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Inside a BOOK auction
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The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon
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Chef vs. Robot
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The laws of the office revisited
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Planet Money vs. the NBA’s tanking problem
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The Business of Heated Rivalry
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Don't hate the replicator, hate the game
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The ICE hiring boom
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The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what?
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How to get what Greenland has, with permission
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Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines
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The Invention Invention
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Iran, protests, and sanctions
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Riding with the repo man (update)
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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
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Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
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A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
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BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
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Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty
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How much money President Trump and his family have made
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