#410: Why K-Pop Is Taking Over The World
America used to lead the world in making cars. Now we don't. China does.We used to be the number...
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#409: The 15-Year-Old Who Bought Two Houses
Loyal Planet Money listeners may remember Willow Tufano, the Florida teenager who bought a house....
#408: How To Hide Money From Your Spouse
Earlier this summer, we set up two shell companies in tax havens. On today's show, we continue...
#266: A Former Crack Dealer On The Economics Of Drugs
Note: This show is a re-run. It originally aired in April, 2011.Lots of economists write about...
#407: A Mathematician, The Last Supper And The Birth Of Accounting
On the show today, the story of an innovation that changed the way the world works, and of the...
Earlier this year, we created a presidential candidate. A fake candidate, sure. But a candidate...
#405: Cheating, Stealing And Quantitative Easing
Global trade wars. Small-time bike thieves. And what happens when the Fed talks big. On today's...
#404: What If You Controlled The Economy?
We play with a computer model of our broken economy and try to fix it. It turns out not to be so...
#403: What Can We Do With Our Shell Companies?
A few months back, we set up a couple shell companies — Unbeliezable, Inc., in Belize, and...
#402: Free Heroin, And Other Ideas That Won't Get You Elected
Earlier this summer, we assembled five prominent economists from across the political spectrum...
A cab ride through the streets of Manhattan. A cramped room in Brooklyn where a man makes...
#400: What Two Pasta Factories Tell Us About The Italian Economy
A decade ago, the Barilla pasta factory in Foggia, Italy, had a big problem with people skipping...
#279: The Failure Tour Of Manhattan
On today's show, we hit the streets of Manhattan with economist Tim Harford. In his book, Adapt,...
Tony Mata is a meat inventor; his job is figuring out new things to do with meat. He thinks he...
#398: Obama, Ryan And Two Dead Economists
On today's show, we talk to Nicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined...
#397: Why The Hero Of Harrisburg Couldn't Save The City
The city of Harrisburg, Pa owes over $1.5 billion. David Unkovic, the city's former receiver,...
#396: A Father Of High-Speed Trading Thinks We Should Slow Down
Thomas Peterffy's life story includes a typing robot, a proto-iPad, and a vast fortune he amassed...
#395: Maastricht, Marijuana And The European Dream
Maastricht is the home of the euro. It's the Dutch town where European leaders signed the treaty...
#394: Why Taxpayers Pay For Farmers' Insurance
In spite of the drought, many U.S. farmers will do just fine this year. They are, after all,...
#393: The Building That's In Two Countries At Once
On today's show, we visit an office building that straddles the border between Germany and the...
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