#475: What Happened To Detroit's Big Plans?
On today's show, we took a tour of Detroit with a local newspaper reporter and an urban planner....
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U.S. citizens who want to buy stuff from North Korea have to write a letter to the U.S....
#422: Schoolhouse Rock Is A Lie (Or, How The Filibuster Ate Washington)
On our show today, we tell you everything you need to know about the filibuster, including:What...
#472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming
Climate change seems like this complicated, intractable problem. But maybe it doesn't have to...
On today's show, we talk to commodities traders to answer one of the most important questions in...
On today's Planet Money, we travel to a place where people are trying to live without government...
On today's Planet Money, we travel to a place where people are trying to live without government...
Five years after the financial crisis, the federal government still controls Fannie Mae and...
#469: Rhino Horns And Clean Water
On today's show: Two stories from Kenya.1. Poachers kill rhinos for their horns. Some economists...
#468: Kid Rock Vs. The Scalpers
We live in a society full of people who are obsessed with making sure that prices are right and...
#467: Tires, Taxes And The Grizz
The price of tires has risen by about 40 percent in the past five years. That's partly because...
Mike Smith lives by himself in a small house in a small town in Kentucky, near the Ohio River. He...
#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...
After decades of isolation, Myanmar is reconnecting with the rest of the world. On today's show,...
#464: When A Poor Country Gets A Lot Richer*
*Note: The country is only getting richer on paper, but that change may make a difference in the...
#463: How To Get A Country To Trust Its Banks
It's something you can see on every block in most major cities. You probably see it every day and...
#462: When Patents Hit the Podcast
Back in the nineties, Jim Logan started a company called Personal Audio. The concept was simple —...
On today's show: Three short stories from the far flung shores of New Zealand, Ireland and New...
#217: The Art Of Living At The Poverty Line
On today's Planet Money, we meet a single mother who makes $16,000 a year — and who managed to...
In 2010, we reported on a poor town in Haiti, where school was held in a small, one-room...
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