Episodes (Page 17)
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Coca-Cola maintained a five-cent price for 70 years from 1886 to the late 1950s despite inflation and rising costs
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In 2007, Uruguay faced an energy crisis despite economic growth, lacking sufficient power generation capacity for expansion
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Alaska Airlines flight attendants developed CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System) strategy to counter the airline's ability to permanently replace strikers
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Listener questions address why September is historically the worst stock market month and how Bass Pro Shops hats became popular in Ecuador
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Economist Tatyana Deryugina specializes in studying the long-term economic consequences of natural disasters on individuals and communities
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Argentina faces 124% annual inflation, currency collapse, and 40% poverty rate while potentially electing a libertarian president favoring dollarization
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Movie producer Aaron Ryder races to create the first GameStop film after the 2021 stock surge captivates Hollywood, competing with other studios for the same story
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Private detective Erin Plante investigates the $600 million Axie Infinity cryptocurrency heist, the largest crypto theft in history
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China's economy, the world's second largest, is struggling as the government has paused release of official economic data
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The Phillips Curve assumes an inflation-unemployment tradeoff, but recent inflation decline has occurred without significant job losses
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Photographer Lynn Goldsmith's 1981 Prince portrait was used by Andy Warhol for a Vanity Fair cover with proper credit and payment
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Indian economist Raghunath Mashelkar discovered turmeric wound-healing patent filed by U.S. scientists despite being traditional Indian medicine
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Planet Money Summer School 2023 graduation where students earn MBA degrees and participate in a pitch competition
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Hollywood studio lots have neutral gates designed for non-striking workers, allowing some employees to bypass picket lines
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Effective negotiation requires understanding BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement) to know when to stand firm or walk away
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The U.S. is the only wealthy nation that doesn't guarantee paid vacation, unlike the EU and other developed countries
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Operations management focuses on planning and backup planning to navigate inevitable bottlenecks in business processes
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Supreme Court struck down Biden's loan forgiveness plan, but the SAVE income-driven repayment plan remains alive and powerful
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The innovator's dilemma describes how successful companies face pressure to abandon existing advantages for disruptive new technology
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Three economic experts debate competing scenarios for the U.S. economy: soft landing, hard landing, or failure to control inflation