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Iran, protests, and sanctions
Feb 07, 2026Book tour tickets and details here. The recent protests in Iran are about so many things. Human rights, corruption, freedom. But this time – they are also motivated by economic hardship. Hardship cau...
Riding with the repo man (update)
Feb 04, 2026Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated...
Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
Jan 31, 2026Book tour dates and ticket info here. Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about it plays well with voters. And now – in a midterm election year – President Dona...
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
Jan 28, 2026In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the program went further than just improving public housi...
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
Jan 24, 2026Book tour dates and ticket info here. Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the people willing to risk everything for what they believe. Pastor Dave Hodges just ...
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
Jan 22, 2026Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The Market for Lemons. We’ve decided we want a mass-appeal party game that ...
Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty
Jan 17, 2026Venezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most famous and profitable oil corporations, has for decades, been plugging away in Venezuela, ...
How much money President Trump and his family have made
Jan 14, 2026Before President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick. At the start of his second term, David says, Trump was in an “even t...
So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.
Jan 10, 2026Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher and higher. The problem is that bubbles are famously hard to spot. But some economists say th...
How Black hair care grew Black power
Jan 07, 2026The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen did so much more than make Black afros shine. It was ...