Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we expl
There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians ar
In 2019, President Trump tweeted: "I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies." Today, the
Econ Battle Zone is back! On today's episode Mary Childs and Kenny Malone enter Econ Battle Stadium
The U.S. has been policing bribery all over the world for nearly half a century using a law called t
Note: A version of this episode first ran in 2023.Every year, the U.S. government spends more money
What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency,
When President Trump announced his sweeping new tariffs this year, many trade law experts were start
Over the past decade, politicians from both parties have courted American voters with an enticing ec
Today on the show – our crypto president. Just before President Donald Trump began his second admini
Over the last few months U.S.-China trade relations have been pretty hard to make sense of – unless
American universities are where people go to learn and teach. They're also where research and develo
You might have seen these texts before. The scam starts innocently enough. Maybe it's a "Long time n
Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a vir
Even though the 145% tariff on Chinese imports only lasted a month, it already inflicted its scars o
The U.S. exports billions of dollars worth of agricultural products each year — things like soybeans
For decades, dollars have been the world's common financial language. Central banks everywhere hold
Virtually every product brought into the United States must have a so-called "country of origin." Th
Why is it so hard to find a bathroom when you need one? In the U.S., we used to have lots of publicl
On today's show: we're ... venting.We at Planet Money are an ensemble show – each with different cur
Reporter Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi's Aunt Vovi signed up for 23andMe back in 2017, hoping to learn more a
