#535: Humanitarians, For A Price
When a famine swept through Somalia in 2011, it was hard for aid workers to get food distributed....
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On today's show: How we got from dim little candles made out of cow fat, to as much light as we...
Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in March, 2013.Sometimes your success depends...
#533: Why Cars From Europe and the US Just Can't Get Along
When a car is sold in the United States, the safety features on that car — the airbags, the...
#532: The Wild West Of The Internet
There are over 100 million websites ending in .com. But new options for website names are...
#531: The Tough, The Sweet and the Nosy
Millions of tax cheats never get caught. And the IRS seems powerless to stop them. This isn’t...
#530: Marijuana, Law School, And Centuries Of Inequality
After today's show, you'll be ready to design a tax on marijuana, pick a law school, and explain...
People love to complain about their internet service, but the thing that seems to make people the...
#436: If Economists Controlled The Borders
Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in February, 2013.For the first time in a...
On today's show: Three Planet Money stories that aired on the radio but haven't yet made it into...
#527: The Amazing Shrinking Economy Might Stop Shrinking
For the past few years, life in Greece has been like that movie Groundhog Day. Every year, it's...
There are reportedly tens of thousands of Russian troops on the Eastern Ukrainian border. The...
#525: Trouble Inside A Babysitting Economy
We all know how lousy a recession feels. And we know how much long-term damage a recession can...
#435: Why Buying A Car Is So Awful
Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in February, 2013. In survey after survey,...
If you want to send a bunch of oranges by truck from Florida to Baltimore, no one cares who made...
#523: The Fight Over Ukraine's Gas Bill
On today's show, how a policy that made natural gas very cheap for every household in Ukraine...
#522: The Invention Of 'The Economy'
If you asked someone on the street 100 years ago, "How's the economy doing?" They wouldn't have...
#521: The Town That Loves Death
People in La Crosse, Wisconsin are used to talking about death. In fact, 96 percent of people who...
#520: Duke's $30,000 Tuition Discount
College is expensive these days. Yet, most universities argue an undergraduate education is...
#519: Wall Street's Image Problem
From billion-dollar bailouts to Occupy Wall Street, it's safe to say the financial crisis didn't...
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