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If you are a congressperson or a senator and you have an idea for a new piece of legislation, at some point someone will have to tell you how much it...
More than 20 years ago, something unusual happened in the small town of Dixfield, Maine. A lady named Barbara Thorpe had left almost all of her money—...
This episode originally ran in 2020.In 2005, Franklin Leonard was a junior executive at Leonardo DiCaprio's production company. A big part of his job...
Every year, the U.S. government spends more money than it takes in. In order to fund all that spending, the country takes on debt. Congress has the po...
A lot of the time, economic policy can seem pretty impersonal — cold, hard, data-driven. But at the heart of the Federal Reserve are people: fallible,...
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Anyone who has tried shopping for day care knows that it is tough out there.For one, it is hard even to get your hands on information about costs, eit...
It's Groundhog Day, and once again, the eyes of the nation have turned to a small town in Western Pennsylvania. Every February 2nd, the only story any...
A great economics paper does two things. It takes on a big question, and it finds a smart way to answer that question.But some papers go even further....
Monopoly is one of the best-selling board games in history. The game's staying power may in part be because of strong American lore — the idea that an...
Some of history's biggest financial scams owe their name to Charles Ponzi. Here's the story of the man behind the eponymous scheme.Subscribe to Planet...
Driving a truck used to mean freedom. Now it means a mountain of debt.Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoneyLearn...
If the Fed had a mantra to go along with its mandate, it might well be "two percent." We look into how that became the target inflation rate, why some...
Welcome to the Planet Money Movie Club, a regular series from Planet Money+ in which we watch an economics-related movie and discuss! On today's episo...
All sorts of lessons (even about economics) can be learned from kids' books. On today's show, we visit an elementary school to try to teach third grad...
It's that time of year again! Our annual year-end tradition of checking in on previous stories to hear what happened after the microphones stopped run...
