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The "chilling effect" of deportations
Jan 25, 2025After being sworn into office, President Trump signed a whole host of executive actions and orders that affirm his campaign promise to crack down on immigration. Trump's border czar has said Chicago ...
After the fires
Jan 23, 2025The fires in Los Angeles are almost out. Residents are starting to trickle back into their burned-out neighborhoods. When they get to their houses, they face a series of almost impossible questions: D...
Tariffs, grocery prices and other listener questions
Jan 17, 2025Donald Trump is just about to begin his second presidency. And it may be safe to say that every single person in America has at least one question about what's to come in the next four years. So, we ...
The Land of the Duty Free (classic)
Jan 15, 2025(Note: This episode originally ran in 2018.) Is it really cheaper to shop at an airport Duty Free store? And why are so many of them alike? In the 1940s, if you were flying from New York City to Lon...
The case for Fed independence in the Nixon tapes
Jan 11, 2025You know Watergate, but do you know Fedgate? The more subtle scandal with more monetary policy and, arguably, much higher stakes. In today's episode, we listen back through the Nixon White House tape...
ZIP Codes!
Jan 08, 2025The ZIP code is less like a cold, clinical, ordered list of numbers, and more like a weird overgrown number garden. It started as a way to organize mail after WWII, but now it pops up all over our dai...
The potato-shaped loophole in free trade
Jan 03, 2025Ever since free trade opened up between the US and Mexico in the 1990s, trillions of dollars of goods have been going back and forth between the two countries, from cars to strawberries to MRI machine...
If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators?
Dec 30, 2024If you believe the hype, translators will all soon be out of work. Luis von Ahn, CEO and co-founder of the language learning app Duolingo, doesn't think AI is quite there... yet. In this interview, Gr...
The Rest of the Story, 2024
Dec 27, 2024After the gift exchange comes another great holiday tradition: returns season. Once again, we are joining the fun in our own Planet Money way. We are returning to stories from years past to see what's...
The Indicators of this year and next
Dec 25, 2024This year, there was some economic good news to go around. Inflation generally ticked down. Unemployment more or less held around 4-percent. Heck, the Fed even cut interest rates three times. But for ...