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Money makes the world go around, faster and faster every day. On NPR's Planet Money, you'll meet high rollers, brainy economists and regular folks -- all trying to make sense of our rapidly changing global economy.

Tue Aug 31 16:55:49 PDT 2010

Over the past few years, the Fed bought $1.25 trillion* of mortgage bonds. It was a big move for the central bank, intend... more

Fri Aug 27 15:27:18 PDT 2010

Financial trickery! Self-dealing! CDOs! On today's podcast, we return to the last days of the housing bubble. Our story: A... more

Tue Aug 24 18:13:18 PDT 2010

On today's Planet Money, we talk to people who've been inside those rooms. And we unpack the latest Basel rules -- regulat... more

Fri Aug 20 17:39:05 PDT 2010

It's really, really hard to create the right kind of economic incentives -- even if you're a professional economist, and a... more

Wed Aug 18 11:19:59 PDT 2010

Today, we hear from Nassim Taleb, the former Wall Street trader who published a book called the Black Swan back in 2007. ... more

Tue Aug 17 16:47:51 PDT 2010

On today's Planet Money, we leap 30 years into the future, a time, if current trends persist, when China's economy is bigg... more

Fri Aug 13 17:42:47 PDT 2010

The network neutrality debate, which has been burning up the comments section of many a tech blog for several years now, h... more

Tue Aug 10 16:59:40 PDT 2010

Right at this very moment, you and I, and the rest of the country are participating in one of the great economics experime... more

Fri Aug 06 14:44:48 PDT 2010

Playing Monopoly is one of a child's earliest opportunities to manage their own "money" and learn basic economic concepts.... more

Tue Aug 03 16:36:48 PDT 2010

Historians say it was the spring waters that brought President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Warm Springs, Georgia, in the ... more