Planet Money

In 2008, Chicago’s budget was in a bad place. The city needed money. One way to raise mone... more

From nuclear fission to GPS to the internet, it’s common knowledge that many of the most r... more

A few years ago, the Jamaican government started making an unusual financial bet. It went ... more

Vote for us in NPR’s People’s Choice Awards: [npr.org/peopleschoice] (http://npr.org/peopl... more

Taylor Swift reaches new heights with her latest album, which is both divisive and record-... more

Givewell is a nonprofit organization that gives money to “save or improve the most lives p... more

Wherever consumer sentiment goes, consumer spending usually goes too. They’re like buddies... more

Tariffs. They’ve been announced, unannounced, re-announced, raised and lowered. It’s an on... more

Last month, during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Treasury Secretary Sco... more

(Note: A version of this episode originally ran in [2022] (https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/... more

When people in Maine prisons started getting laptops to use in their cells for online clas... more

People in the U.S. are feeling the financial squeeze, in part because of rising inflation,... more

This week’s SNAP crisis is just a preview. Tucked inside the giant tax-cut and spending bi... more

For decades, the U.S. has been the single biggest source of remittances worldwide. A remit... more

The U.S. Constitution famously outlaws “cruel and unusual punishments.” But there's anothe... more