Why Paramount went looney tunes for Warner Bros.
Paramount Skydance is making a $110 billion play for Warner Bros. Discovery, and with it intellectual property like Harry Potter, Batman, and subsidiaries HBO and CNN. On today’s show, who is the man ...
3 Mar 8min
Should the families of organ donors be compensated?
Two economists get into the business—and stakes—of organ donation, and they argue why the government should financially compensate their families.FYI, we are going on a book tour! Planet Money’s first...
2 Mar 9min
ICE is bad for business, heat is bad for coffee, and sci-fi is bad for markets
It’s … Indicators of the Week (now on YouTube!), our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. On today’s episode: How Minnesota workers were affected by Operation Me...
27 Feb 9min
How your favorite fish sticks might be funding Russia's war
Russia exports billions of dollars worth of fish a year across the world. But after the invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. banned imports of Russian fish. It turns out those bans are only so effective. Tod...
26 Feb 8min
What an Epstein recording reveals about how elites get jobs
What do the latest batch of documents tell us about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and elite networking? Quite a bit. Today on the show, we analyze one exchange between Epstein and a former wo...
25 Feb 9min
Do traders who place big bets make big money?
We’re going whale watching today. No, not orcas or great blues, but financial traders that place big bets on something called options. On today’s show, who are these option whales and do their bets al...
24 Feb 9min
Why there are roving rotisserie chicken mobs
You asked, we answered. On today’s show, we tackle questions from our dear listeners on whether AI interviewers are biased, what the heck M2 money supply is, and what’s up with the frenzied mobs fight...
23 Feb 9min
Can I get my tariff money back now?
The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of President Trump’s tariffs yesterday. The Trump administration originally used an emergency economic powers law to justify the tariffs. And the court said: No! ...
21 Feb 8min
