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Summer School 2: Competition and the cheaper sneaker
For episode 2 of Planet Money Summer School, we are talking strategy. You have your million dollar business idea, and maybe some money in your pocket…
3 years ago
Surprise, you just signed a contract! How hidden contracts took over the internet
When you make an account online or install an app, you are probably entering into a legally enforceable contract. Even if you never signed anything. …
3 years ago
Summer School 1: Planet Money goes to business school
Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here.
Planet Money Summer School is back! It's the free economics class you can take from anywhere... …
3 years ago
The quest to save macroeconomics from itself
When it comes to big questions about the economy, we're still kind of in the dark ages. Why do some economies grow so much faster than others? How lo…
3 years ago
Two Indicators: After Affirmative Action & why America overpays for subways
Two stories today.
First, as we start to understand post-affirmative action America, we look to a natural experiment 25 years ago, when California end…
3 years ago
Supply, demand, extinction
Back in the 90s, Ivan Lozano Ortega was in charge of Bogota's wildlife rescue center. And he kept getting calls from the airport to come deal with...…
3 years ago
Planet Money Live: Two Truths and a Lie
The shocks of the pandemic economy gave us a bunch of enormous natural experiments, which helped to prove or disprove conventional economic thinking.…
3 years ago
Mike The Mover vs. The Furniture Police
In 1978, a young man named Mike Shanks started a moving business in the north end of Seattle. It was just him and a truck — a pretty small operation.…
3 years, 1 month ago
Twins (classic)
Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like "Can you read each other's minds?" or "Can you feel each other's pain?" Two of our Planet Mon…
3 years, 1 month ago
The 60-day job race
People come from all over the world to work in U.S. tech. And during the tech boom years, the industry relied heavily on foreign workers. This is how…
3 years, 1 month ago