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Nigerians heard a radio ad offering millions of dollars for people with business proposals. They thought it was a scam. It wasn't. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. → Read More
We rethink everything we know about government spending, taxes, and the nature of money. → Read More
Vodka is the best-selling spirit in the United States, and there are zillions of brands. But is there any difference between them? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. → Read More
New Orleans has become a battleground for Airbnb. Preservationists want to save the city. Landlords want to open it up. Can either win without destroying the other? → Read More
On today's show we answer questions about silver dollars, Venmo, and Brexit. Why? Because you asked! → Read More
Parkinson's Law says work expands to fill the time allotted. Goodhart's Law says you get what you measure. Has anyone ever tested these laws of the modern workplace? → Read More
Parkinson's Law says work expands to fill the time allotted. Goodhart's Law says you get what you measure. Has anyone ever tested these laws of the modern workplace? → Read More
The first lottery was a royal affair with poems, golden flatware and invited criminals. Also, how someone won the lottery over and over. → Read More
President Trump promised to slash regulations. How has he done? → Read More
We rethink everything we know about government spending, taxes, the nature of money... All of it. → Read More
In honor of our 10th anniversary, we revisit our very first episode. → Read More
There's a simple way to solve the housing crisis in U.S. cities. Only problem is, almost everybody hates it. → Read More
A pesticide wreaks havoc. A listener needs a bitcoin detective. And the search for the rarest economic good continues. → Read More
In game theory, sometimes the best way to win, is to lose. → Read More
We're in a full-fledged trade war with China. We dig into the list of Chinese tariffs on American products. It gets weird...and delicious. → Read More
Vodka is the best selling spirit in the United States, and there are zillions of brands. But is there any difference between them? → Read More
News moves fast. Some of our best stories from this year have new chapters. Here, we catch up on three: Dirty trademarks, trading bots, and the war against the bald eagle. → Read More
Planet Money built a stock trading Twitter bot. The big puzzle is figuring out which company to buy or sell, and how to get a computer to tell the difference between Apple the company and the fruit. → Read More
Planet Money tries to make a program that reads Donald Trump's tweets and then trades stocks. The first step is training the program to interpret the tweets using something called sentiment analysis. → Read More
Big investment firms on Wall Street are replacing human stock pickers with computer programs. That has created a big demand for data to feed into the computer programs. → Read More