Jobs that new college grads are and are not landing
Come see Planet Money live on stage! 12 cities. Details and tix here: planetmoneybook.comEconomists have described the state of the jobs market as “low hire, low fire.” That means employers are not cu...
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Greetings from: Our favorite public goods
Freedom of the Seas. GPS. The Large Hadron Collider. These are all public goods that make our world more prosperous, accurate, and knowledgeable. But we don’t always give them the attention they deser...
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Why Pokémon cards are growing faster than your retirement account
Pokémon cards are scorching hot right now. An index tracking the thousands of rare cards shows that valuations have increased 170% in the last year alone. Growth like that really makes you wish you ha...
1 Huhti 9min
Who's afraid of private credit?
There is a $3 trillion dollar black box at the center of the economy. It’s called private credit. These are direct loans from private investors to private companies. They’re often riskier, less regula...
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Do school lunches really need an overhaul?
School lunch has been revamped a ton over the last two decades. Now, the Trump administration wants to rejigger the menu once more to align with its Make America Healthy Again agenda. That means more ...
30 Maalis 9min
The US loses tech hires, sayonora to Sora, and Afroman's win
It’s Indicators of the Week (now on YouTube!). It’s our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. On today’s episode: The US ain’t doing too hot in attracting Europea...
27 Maalis 9min
Tracing the tax that's supposed to fund TSA
Every time you buy a ticket that leaves a U.S. airport, you pay a fee that’s supposed to help fund the TSA. So why have TSA workers been working without pay? Today on the show, we explore the history ...
26 Maalis 8min
Your next flight doesn't have to be so expensive. Here's why
Why are flight tickets so expensive right now? Increased oil prices seems like it’d be the obvious answer. That’s mostly right. Airlines used to do some financial magic to help keep airfare down as oi...
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