#504: Can Hospitals Save Money By Making Doctors Squirm?
There's one part of Obamacare that doesn't get mentioned a lot, but that could end up being a big...
#504: Can Hospitals Save Money By Making Doctors Squirm?
There's one part of Obamacare that doesn't get mentioned a lot, but that could end up being a big...
#503: Adding Up The Cost Of The Planet Money T-Shirt
Today's show is the final installment of the Planet Money T-shirt project.In all, each shirt cost...
#502: The Afterlife Of A T-Shirt
Charities like Goodwill sell or give away some of the used clothes they get. But a lot of the...
#501: A Shirt, A Meat Grinder And The Book Of Everything
On today's show, the Planet Money T-shirts arrive at the Port of Miami. But they're not quite...
#500: The Humble Innovation At The Heart Of The Global Economy
On today's show: the story of an often-overlooked innovation that's essential to the global...
#499: Richard Nixon, Kimchi And The First Clothing Factory In Bangladesh
The nation of Bangladesh was created out of chaos in the early 1970s, at a moment when millions...
#498: The Last T-Shirt In Colombia
The Planet Money men's T-shirts were made in Bangladesh. The Planet Money women's T-shirts were...
#497: Love, Betrayal And The Planet Money T-Shirt
Today's show is about love and betrayal. It's about the lives of two sisters who worked on the...
#496: Where The Planet Money T-Shirt Began
After years of planning and months of production, the Planet Money T-shirts are here. They'll be...
#495: The Weird Inner Workings Of The Payday Loan Business
Payday lenders made about $49 billion in high-interest loans last year. More than forty percent...
#494: What Happens When You Just Give Money To Poor People?
There's a charity called GiveDirectly that gives money to poor people in Kenya — no strings...
#462: When Patents Hit the Podcast
Note: This episode originally aired in May of 2013. Back in the nineties, Jim Logan started a...
#493: What's A Bubble? (Nobel Edition)
On today's show, we talk to Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller, who shared this year's economics...
#377: Can Lincoln Be Cool Again?
Lincolns used to be the coolest cars in the world. They used to be driven by kings, moguls and...
We recently became obsessed with a strange, select club:The top rated reviewers on Amazon. These...
#391: The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers
There's a pill called Suboxone that treats addiction to heroin and pain pills like oxycontin....
#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...
#491: The Debt Ceiling, Obamacare And Welfare
On today's show: Three ripped-from-the-headlines stories from Planet Money.What A U.S. Default...
#490: The Real Economy Of Fantasy Sports
Last year, Americans paid $1.7 billion to play in fantasy sports leagues. Billion!On today's...
#189: Why A Dead Shark Costs $12 Million
On today's Planet Money: Why a dead shark costs $12 million, and a photo of steel wool that looks...