NPR: Planet Money Podcast

NPR: Planet Money Podcast

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.

Fri Mar 12 13:53:30 PST 2010

In today's podcast, Alex and David talk with Reps. John Campbell and Brad Miller about what went into the House finance bi... more

Tue Mar 09 13:52:03 PST 2010

We wanted to really understand how this whole housing bust/economic catastrophe is playing out. So we sent David Kestenbau... more

Fri Mar 05 12:17:54 PST 2010

Could the Greek crisis spell the end of the Euro? No way, says Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen. Eichengreen, says t... more

Tue Mar 02 14:39:13 PST 2010

The economies of Jamaica and Barbados — two countries with very similar histories — have grown far apart in th... more

Fri Feb 26 13:48:40 PST 2010

Adam Davidson takes a road trip to Vegas, via Haiti. When Adam and Chana Joffe-Walt traveled to Haiti recently, they kept... more

Tue Feb 23 13:16:56 PST 2010

Greece is scrambling to get its national debt under control. Investors are already nervous. So what would happen if Greece... more

Fri Feb 19 14:10:16 PST 2010

Last week on This American Life, our own Alex Blumberg had a story about corporate personhood. The idea was actually pitc... more

Tue Feb 16 14:06:51 PST 2010

We meet Yvrose Jean Baptiste, a small-time Haitian wholesaler. Yvrose has a unique business model. She borrows money from ... more

Fri Feb 12 13:43:07 PST 2010

We meet "Mango Man," Jean Maurice Buteau who heads JMB exports in Port-au-Prince. Jean Maurice buys mangoes from rural Ha... more

Tue Feb 09 13:19:02 PST 2010

We look at the world through the eyes of Matt LeBlanc, an efficiency expert (or lean expert), who runs around with a stopw... more

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