Planet Money
About This Show
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Helping you make sense of our rapidly changing global economy. NPR's Planet Money highlights high rollers, brainy economists and financial experts to keep you up to date on the fiscal world. Money makes the world go around, so listen on demand with two podcast episodes each week.
Most Recent Episode
#795: Is Record Breaking Broken?
2 days ago
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23 minutes
The Guinness Book of World Records had a problem. It was a book. And books aren't selling as well as they used to. So Guinness changed what they were selling, and who they were selling to.
Episodes of This Show
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Rated 5 out of
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rokkopaw from
Makes me (seem) Smarter
I came to Planet Money in an attempt to understand the economic meltdown that was unfolding in 2009. Once I started, I could not stop. I find the stories interesting, compelling, and thought provoking. I use Stitcher to download the episodes and I listen to them through a headset while mowing the grass. An interesting juxtaposition of activities - mowing the grass is the one thing in my life I can control and fully complete - neat straight lines, tight turns; While Planet Money describes the obtuse interconnections of economic theories and our daily lives.
Date published: 2013-10-25
Rated 5 out of
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TheEconTeach from
Absolute favorite podcast
Planet Money is educational, but doesn't feel that way. It does an excellent job of both teaching complex ideas through easy to understand real world examples as well as showing how the economy works on the personal level. I use this with my economics classes, and the students love it.
The overall tone of the show is light and slightly comedic which helps to keep the audience's attention, but while you are being entertained you feel like you're learning something that most people don't know anything about. Its always interesting, and I just wish the episodes came out daily.
Date published: 2015-06-05
Rated 5 out of
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ShowMePmoney from
Total Surprise, Amazing Show!!!
Pure fun to listen too on the dullest topics of $ and the economy!! They report real stories and issues in a storytelling/reporting style and explain complicated financial principals so that anyone without a financial background can easily understand them. No other show in history has been able to make such topics so easy to understand and so much fun to listen too!! Do yourself a favor and download this podcast!! Do not let the NPR and money title fool you into thinking this is a boring show because its one of my favorite podcast and I have listened to 100s of diff shows and I am so excited whenever they release a new one!! Thank you planet money and please keep up the great work!!!
Date published: 2013-08-31
Rated 5 out of
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Kapuchnik from
Great Show! Clear, informative, entertaining
Being a longtime This American Life listener I was introduced to these guys on their episodes devoted to the recent financial meltdown. They did about 3 entire 60 minute episodes, and it was by far the most incisive, comprehensible reporting I had heard on that complex subject.
They do more of the same with their own podcast, taking one small subject at a time and covering it cleverly and entertainingly. Freakanomics Radio is a similar show. I couldn't say which was better...I listen to them both each week.
Date published: 2013-09-05
Rated 5 out of
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JStor from
Best Podcast
Planet Money is the best podcast I've heard so far and I've been following them religiously for about three years now. For someone who follows the news regularly but doesn't quite understand economics, they really break it down into concise and yet thoroughly entertaining takes on economic principles such as why the gold standard was good or bad, whether Hayek or Keynes had it right, etc. The quality is superb and the reporters are, for lack of a better word, just very funny.
Date published: 2013-10-23
Rated 5 out of
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akessel33 from
Thought provoking and relevant
I love listening to Planet Money. I constantly share episodes with friends and family and get great feedback from the "shares." The show constantly makes me re-think society and regular every day questions. I am an Economic's fan but the show does not normally get so technical. People from all backgrounds could enjoy this show. It's well arranged, narrated, creative, fun, and the right mix of quirky and new.
Date published: 2014-05-21
Rated 5 out of
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adamantane from
Fresh Perspectives on Money
Focusing on topics of money and finance, Planet Money provides unique stories that aim to present a new perspective or in-depth showcase of a particular aspects of modern economics (e.g. global production of T-shirts, the economics of fantasy sports, payday loans, rainforests in Ecuador, etc.). The presentation style is always entertaining and the stories are engaging. Highly recommended.
Date published: 2013-12-18
Rated 5 out of
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Commute2Long from
Congratulations on the amazing t-shirt series
The Planet Money team has figured out how find the story in economics. What a great idea to design your own t-shirt, sell it to your listeners, and then spend the next several months telling the story of its creation from the cotton field to the factory, to the shipping container, and even what happens when it finally goes to the donation pile.
Date published: 2013-12-18
