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Can Trump make buying a home more affordable?
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Housing is too expensive. Everyone knows this. Democrats know that talking about it plays well with voters. And …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Can transforming neighborhoods help kids escape poverty?
In the 1990s, Congress created HOPE VI, a program that demolished old public housing projects and replaced them with more up-to-date ones. But the pr…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
A trip to the magic mushroom megachurch
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Just as every market has its first movers, every religion has its martyrs — the people willing to risk everythin…
6 months ago
BOARD GAMES 3: What’s in a name?
Planet Money has teamed up with the company Exploding Kittens to make a board game inspired by the legendary economics paper The Market for Lemons. W…
6 months ago
Chevron, Venezuela and the Paradox of Plenty
Venezuela and Chevron have perhaps one of the strangest partnerships … ever? Chevron, one of the world’s most famous and profitable oil corporations,…
6 months, 1 week ago
How much money President Trump and his family have made
Before President Donald Trump’s first term, he was in a “tight spot” financially, according to New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick. At the start of h…
6 months, 1 week ago
So are we in an AI bubble? Here are clues to look for.
Are we in an AI bubble? That’s the $35 trillion dollar question right now as the stock market soars higher and higher. The problem is that bubbles ar…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
How Black hair care grew Black power
The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen di…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Venezuela’s recent economic history (Update)
We’ve been checking in on the economic conditions in Venezuela for about a decade now. In response to the U.S. strike and the capture of Venezuelan p…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Indicators of the Year, Past and Future
2025 is finally over. It was a wild year for the U.S. economy. Tariffs transformed global trading, consumer sentiment hit near-historic lows, and sto…
6 months, 3 weeks ago