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411 episodes transcribedCongratulations to the Planet Money Summer School Class of 2023! Today, you become masters of business administration... spelled with lower-case lette...
Across Hollywood right now, writers and actors are picketing in front of studio lots. They're walking back and forth, holding up signs demanding conce...
How do you get the best deal? How do you know you're getting the best deal? Whether you're talking down the price of a car or talking up your salary,...
Do you work more for more money? Or work less for more time? For some, this is the ultimate economic choice.Every single worker in the European Union...
"It's difficult to control everything," says our guest professor for this week, Santiago Gallino. "What is not difficult is to plan for everything." T...
This summer, the Supreme Court struck down Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers. Except, on the same day Biden first an...
For anyone running a business, technology is both threat and opportunity. Today, we run through techniques entrepreneurs can use to take advantage of...
Predicting the future of the economy is always a dicey proposition. That is especially true after more than three years of pandemic-related economic w...
In this session of Planet Money Summer School, we are getting the word out about your brand. How do you convince consumers to buy your product, even i...
There's an estimated $195 billion of medical debt in America. But just because a medical bill comes in the mail doesn't mean you have to pay that exac...
Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino are two of the biggest stars in behavioral science. Both have conducted blockbuster research into how to make people mor...
Usually, the first class that an MBA student takes is accounting. That involves, yes, equations and counting widgets...but it's more than that. Inside...
We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can expl...
For episode 2 of Planet Money Summer School, we are talking strategy. You have your million dollar business idea, and maybe some money in your pocket...
When you make an account online or install an app, you are probably entering into a legally enforceable contract. Even if you never signed anything. T...
Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here.Planet Money Summer School is back! It's the free economics class you can take from anywhere... f...
When it comes to big questions about the economy, we're still kind of in the dark ages. Why do some economies grow so much faster than others? How lon...
Two stories today.First, as we start to understand post-affirmative action America, we look to a natural experiment 25 years ago, when California ende...
Back in the 90s, Ivan Lozano Ortega was in charge of Bogota's wildlife rescue center. And he kept getting calls from the airport to come deal with......
The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped to prove or disprove conventional economic thinking.T...
