#489: The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy
So we're making a T-shirt and we do this Kickstarter campaign and we raise $590,807 (which,...
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On today's show, we visit Fulper Farms, a family-run dairy in New Jersey. It's a bucolic setting...
#488: The Secret History Of Your Cable Bill
If you have cable, your bill has probably doubled over the past decade. The rise is largely...
#371: Where Dollar Bills Come From
Every single dollar bill in the world — every $20, every $100, everything — is printed on paper...
#487: The Trouble With The Poverty Line
According to the government, there are 46.5 million Americans who live below the poverty line. In...
We're in a gym full of high school students. The gym is at the headquarters of the New York...
Five years ago this month, the financial crisis hit its most intense moment. One giant company...
Sure, some college degrees lead to higher paying jobs than others. But what's shocking — at...
#484: Inside The T-Shirt Factory
On today's show, we check in with our reporters in Bangladesh. We hear what it was like inside...
#483: Putting The Planet In The Planet Money T-Shirt
The cotton for the Planet Money men's T-shirt was spun into yarn in Indonesia and knit, cut and...
#433: Holding A Rainforest Hostage? (Update)
Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, a pristine corner of the Amazon rainforest, is home to jaguars,...
#421: The Birth Of The Dollar Bill
Before the Civil War, there were 8,000 different kinds of money in the United States.Banks...
#482: Why The U.S. Keeps Sending Weapons To Egypt
As the Egyptian military cracked down on protesters last week, U.S.-made Apache helicopters flew...
#481: The Economist's Guide To Drinking While Pregnant
On today's show, we meet a woman who is trying to bring nuance and subtlety to a world of...
#480: The Charity That Just Gives People Money
GiveDirectly is a charity that just gives money to poor people. The people who get the money can...
On today’s show, three stories about what how products and people get branded and what happens...
#478: Rocky Pipkin, Private Eye Vs. The Raisin Outlaw
In most industries, competitors getting together to restrict the supply of a good would be...
#477: Waiting For Robot Nannies
More than half of all Japanese women quit their jobs after giving birth to their first child....
Episode 386: The Cost Of Free Doughnuts
Everybody likes free. But free can be dangerous, too. Today's show is sort of the flip side free....
#476: The Return Of The Indicator*
*Not really. But sort of.On today's show, we bring you three Planet Money radio stories, each of...
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