Episodes (Page 15)
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Industrial policy
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The Department of Defense's 2024 budget is $842 billion (3.5% of GDP), covering everything from paperclips to fighter jets, with military procurement operating under very different rules than comme...
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The U.S. Navy protects cargo ships in the Red Sea despite ships not being American-owned or flagged
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Planet Money celebrates Valentine's Day by dedicating an episode to things giving them 'butterflies'
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Keith King explores heart balm torts, an old legal mechanism allowing people to sue for damages from affairs that break up marriages
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Economics explores three morally questionable markets: organ buying/selling, workplace revenge seeking, and insider trading
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Hosts Kenny Malone and Amanda Aronczyk search Groundhog Day news archives for economics stories
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Trade dispute over frozen chicken between Germany and America in the 1960s led to unintended consequences for the auto industry
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appears on NPR's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! news quiz show
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In November 1994, Captain Skip Strong received a distress call from a tugboat engine failure during a tropical storm off Florida's coast
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Three unconventional economic proposals examined: banning left turns to improve traffic efficiency, universal baby trust funds, and eliminating congressional districts
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Three Planet Money hosts compete in inaugural Econ Battle Zone competition analyzing why U.S. inflation has slowed
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Houthi attacks on container ships in Red Sea disrupt global supply chains, affecting shipping costs and delivery times
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Western potato farmers challenge Maine's dominance in the commodities futures market on the New York Mercantile Exchange in 1976
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Economists test whether giving cash directly to people in poverty is more effective than funding specific aid programs
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Sixteenth-century Spanish galleons traveling from Manila to Acapulco experienced a mysterious 20% shipwrecking rate
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Annual year-end follow-up checking in on previous stories including a Hollywood strike captain's last job attempt
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Planet Money and Indicator hosts debate which economic indicators best captured 2023: soft landing, consumer sentiment, or housing market
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Episode explores the hidden economics behind Christmas tree supply, demand, and pricing through auction and retail stories
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Argentina's currency crisis has pushed inflation above 160% annually as the peso collapsed from 20-to-1 to 1,000-to-1 against the dollar