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Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we explore the forces that shape our lives and bring you along for the ride. Don't just understand the economy – understand the world. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening for Planet Money.

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Are wildfires making the future uninsurable?

2026-11-13 · 41 min

Over the past decade, increasingly catastrophic wildfires have wrought unprecedented destruction and upended the basic math of the insurance industry. In some of the riskiest parts of the country, homeowners have seen…
How bodegas led to the Yemeni coffeehouse explosion

2026-11-11 · 24 min

There is a long-standing tradition of different immigrant groups arriving in the U.S. and specializing in one particular type of business. Think, nail salons run by people from Vietnam or Gujarati Indians owning motels…
Inside the insurance industry’s destruction lab

2026-11-06 · 32 min

When you think of someone burning down a house for insurance purposes, you don’t imagine it would ever be the insurance company itself lighting the match. But that’s essentially what’s happening inside a giant…
The history of light (classic)

2026-11-04 · 21 min

How do you measure human progress? Light is the answer.For thousands of years, getting light was a huge hassle. You had to make candles from scratch. This is not as romantic as it sounds. You had to get a cow, raise the…
Is this how the great international borrowing spree ends?

2026-10-31 · 26 min

In recent months, there have been serious whispers about an outrageous possibility: that one day soon, France — the seventh largest economy in the world — might not be able to pay back its debts. Right now, protesters…
Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.

2026-10-28 · 31 min

Connecticut’s property tax system has been broken for decades and the politicians have failed to fix the problem. So now, they’re trying something new: a citizens assembly. (Citizens assemblies are also old. They go…
How surveillance crept up on us

2026-10-23 · 35 min

For years, police have spent billions of tax dollars on watching us, tracking us, and recording us. In the largest police department in the country, these surveillance systems were paid for and adopted without the kind…
We try to fix election polling (update)

2026-10-21 · 30 min

Polling is facing an existential crisis. People aren't picking up the phone. Nobody wants to talk to pollsters. Trust is on the line. We pluck a solution from the economics canon and convince a polling firm to let us…
Anatomy of a movie market

2026-10-16 · 32 min

Before an independent movie makes it to a streaming platform or a theater near you, it first needs to survive an artistic and economic gauntlet. And even for those movies that make it into elite film festivals like…
Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.

2026-10-14 · 29 min

Fifty years ago, scientists pioneering a terrifying gene-splicing technology figured out a way to collectively hit pause. Can we do it again with AI? We ask because some top AI industry leaders are saying the technology…

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