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A practically brand new Lexus with a New Jersey inspection sticker lands on an auto body lot in Turkmenistan. How did it get there? To find out, we jo...
High gas prices have fueled speculation and investigations — is anyone raising prices and keeping prices high for profit? To find out, we break down t...
Productivity is our economic measure for how far our work goes, as individuals and as a society over all. It plays an important role in determining ou...
Sometimes online shopping can feel a little unsavory. There are the listings that make you question if you'll really be getting exactly what's adverti...
The Federal Reserve plays a very important role in the economy. When things start to look uncertain, the central bank is tasked with stepping in to re...
Congress just passed the biggest, most ambitious climate bill in history. And it's called ... the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. What's with that br...
International trade is the web of cross-border relationships that binds economies together. Because of trade we have access to cheaper, higher-quality...
The carried interest tax loophole is a way that wealthy Americans – often the people who manage hedge funds or private equity firms – avoid paying bil...
You can learn a lot about a person from their job. The same can be said of an economy. The market for jobs can us a lot about how the economy is doing...
College has gotten incredibly expensive. And some colleges are offering students a new way to pay. It's not a scholarship. It's not quite a loan. It's...
Inflation can be one of the scariest forces in the economy. As prices rise and your dollar doesn't go as far, you feel poorer, and it's all out of you...
This episode, Micro-Face: The Musical. A full concert recording of a one-of-a-kind Planet Money superhero musical, taped during our recent live show a...
So are we in a recession or not? The jury is still out, but there are some warning signs. GDP is down and inflation is up. But how much do we know abo...
Life has its ups and downs. Same for the economy. Today we ask, can the business cycle be tamed? Two stories of recession and techniques for moderatin...
It has great bones, three bedrooms and one and half baths, and it comes with its own machine that mines cryptocurrency. But in a year of reckoning for...
What even is "the economy"? And how do you measure it? Our path out of the economic darkness and into the light has been guided in large part by one s...
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It's macro time! Today: Keynes vs. Hayek. Season 3 of summer school is here asking the biggest economic questions about what makes an entire economy g...
There's a movement underway in Georgia. More and more communities around Atlanta are choosing to keep their tax dollars very local, and become their o...
