#550: When Salaries Aren't Secret
In most workplaces, salaries are secret. But what if they weren't? What if everybody knew what...
#550: When Salaries Aren't Secret
In most workplaces, salaries are secret. But what if they weren't? What if everybody knew what...
#549: A Teenager's Guide to Doing Business in North Korea
The dream of socialist North Korea was that the government would control every part of the...
Note: Today's show is a rerun. It originally ran on May 11th, 2012. You can find more recent data...
Planet Money's Steve Henn wanted to know how much someone could learn about him by just sitting...
One of the biggest banks in the world, BNP Paribas, is about to be punished. The financial cops...
#546: Fear, Negativity And Pawn Shops For The Rich
Today on the show: Stories about bored traders, a bank that charges customers to deposit money,...
Certain things are just hard to improve on. The classic example: the mousetrap. Also: the...
The other day we noticed something strange: a pack of Milk Chocolate M&M's weighs 1.69 ounces,...
#472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming
Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in July 2013.Climate change seems like this...
There's this big idea floating around right now. It sounds crazy and fringey, but it turns out...
#542: Can An Economy Be Too Good?
When we talk about European economy, we usually focus on the screw ups – the sunny South, with...
Tons of entrepreneurs have come up with clever ways to make money using little drones: farmers,...
Today on the show we have three radio stories for you about the strange ways people think about...
Today on the show: The penny. And the strange spot it occupies in our economy. It's worth almost...
#337: The Secret Document That Transformed China
Note: Today's show is a re-run. It originally ran in January 2012.In 1978, a group of farmers in...
#538: Is A Stradivarius Just A Violin?
A trumpet is more or less a trumpet. A clarinet is a clarinet. But violin or a viola... they are...
#537: Hold The Music, Just The Lyrics Please
If you thought Daft Punk was saying something about a Mexican monkey when they were actually...
#536: The Future Of Work Looks Like A UPS Truck
In a lot of ways, the job looks the same as ever — the brown truck, the dogs, the lady coming out...
#535: Humanitarians, For A Price
When a famine swept through Somalia in 2011, it was hard for aid workers to get food distributed....
On today's show: How we got from dim little candles made out of cow fat, to as much light as we...