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The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.
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A mysterious woman promises a financial revolution. That promise leads to greed, corruption and... a beauty pageant. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
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A farmer in California built an empire dealing raw milk. And then the Feds showed up. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
How fast is the world really changing? The answer affects everything from how we live, to whether robots really will take all our jobs. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
In Barbuda, land isn't a thing you buy. It's something you just... have. Put up a fence and it's yours. But all that might change. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
We re-engineer a restaurant with a consultant so good, she can move a table a few inches, and make thousands of dollars. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
You may be owed money. The government may decide to just use it. So we go looking for it inside a little-known "lost and found" of forgotten fortunes. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
Our friends at Throughline dive into the life of Vladimir Putin and try to understand how he became Russia's new "tsar." | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
We team up with Vox's The Impact, to tell the story of how one man changed the way Germany – and arguably the world – uses energy. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
We are dedicating an entire show to billboards: good and old-fashioned, or fancy and high-tech. And we put up our own. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
We went to the American Economic Association's annual conference and asked: What's the most useful idea in economics? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
Free is cool, but it can backfire. On today's show, what happens when you take something that's free and give it a price. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
Four lessons for creating fairness from a big race in New York. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
Inflation in Brazil was out of control for a decade. Four former drinking buddies from grad school fixed it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
A lot can happen after we put an episode out into the world. In The Rest Of The Story, we check-in on stories we've reported. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here
In April, 7,000 TV writers across the U.S. fired their agents. All on the same day. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
Tom Whitwell made an amazing list of 52 things he learned this year. We dig into our favorite items. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
When air traffic controllers went on strike in 1981, Reagan gave them 48 hours to return. Labor would never be the same. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.
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Paul Rhine
This was an interesting episode and I'm definitely planning on listening to the BBC podcast it is based on. I just looked it up. The Missing Cryptoqueen https://castbox.fm/va/2374138
Cody Cook
sounds like a Ponzi scheme
tashy41
the whole BBC podcast is amazing!!
Herman van der Veer
Excellent podcast. This really changed my perspective on the matter of innovation
zhang zhazha119
inspiring
Casey Wollberg
Blink, blink? It's wink, wink. Blink, blink expresses incredulity. Wink, wink is for subterfuge.
Tumwine
It's scary how much tracking is done by modern billboards 😯
Chris Wagener
This is an excellent episode. The lack of productivity growth and innovation is rather well understood. People often use the example of the weight brothers discovering flight and how that would be impossible in our modern government regulatory environment. All of those inventions that you mention would be so difficult to get to market right now, with red tape and compliance costs, that is not really much of a surprise that we have stagnated a bit. I was really hoping you would go deeper into that causation part of the story, but that's what econtalk and freakonomics are for I suppose.
Lynda McKay
Why do we still have double booking when we have computers?
Josh
You're escheating me...
Sahand Mozaffari
This episode was so good that made me find the Planet Money archive and start listening from episode #1. I am now through the first 534 episodes and happy.
Michael Turek
So now "free" energy only costs the Germans 31 cents per kilowatt hour...congratulations.
BC
wild. something I never would have never thought about. informative.
Stefano Leone
Too many ads, I had to stop listening to it as they were getting me nervous.. Really disappointed, other podcasts don't do that
Cody Cook
what an asshole :(
BC
ouch.
Prabin Timsina
I just watch the Putin video and this podcast exaggerated saying the guy walked all the way to return the pen. he didn't even have to take a step to return it.
Casey Wollberg
i really wish i could just get the story without it being filtered through a boy and girl taking turns trying to sound cute.
Raymond Safdeye
Wow a pro trump episode and they didn't even realize it
Dirk Wijns
On the internet we are paying mostly with our data, free doesn't exist!