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What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill
Dec 20, 2025As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that’s inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending hundre...
PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition
Dec 17, 2025Welcome to the inaugural Planet Money Pop Culture Draft! In today's episode (a Planet Money+ episode we’re releasing into the main feed) we're gonna go back to the year 1999. Three hosts, Kenny Malone...
When Chicago pawned its parking meters
Dec 12, 2025In 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise money was to increase property taxes, but what politician wants to do that? So instead, Mayor Richard M. Daley’s a...
Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear
Dec 10, 2025From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most resource intensive technologies of the last century got their start as military R&D projects in government-fund...
How hurricanes became a hot investment
Dec 05, 2025A few years ago, the Jamaican government started making an unusual financial bet. It went to investors around the world asking if they'd like to wager on the chances a major hurricane would hit the is...
Is AI slopifying the job market? (Two Indicators)
Dec 03, 2025Vote for us in NPR’s People’s Choice Awards: npr.org/peopleschoice AI is already reshaping how people find work. Fewer entry-level jobs, robot recruiters, and ever-changing new skill requirements al...
Capitalism (Taylor's Version) (25-minute Podcast Version)
Nov 28, 2025Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-breaking. And it’s fueled by an elaborate series of business choices that propel profits but also chart number...
Saving lives with fewer dollars
Nov 27, 2025Givewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives per dollar.” Part of their whole thing is a rigorous research process with copious and specific datapoints. So,...
The Consumer Sentiment vs. Consumer Spending Puzzle
Nov 21, 2025Wherever consumer sentiment goes, consumer spending usually goes too. They’re like buddies that do everything together. Consumer sentiment wants a hair cut, its buddy consumer spending does too.But la...
Days of our Tariffs
Nov 19, 2025Tariffs. They’ve been announced, unannounced, re-announced, raised and lowered. It’s an on-going saga with billions at stake! On today’s episode, we run full-on at the twisty, turny drama of life wit...