Planet Money
NPR's economics show that hides the lesson inside a story.
Planet Money takes a knotty economic idea and wraps it in a narrative — a shipping container, a T-shirt, a strange market — so the concept arrives almost by accident.
The production is polished and the tone is playful, which makes genuinely technical material feel like a documentary you'd choose on a night off.
It is less how-to and more how-things-work, and it is often the show that makes economics click for people who thought it wouldn't.
What you'll hear
- Big economic ideas told as small stories
- Reported episodes on strange, revealing markets
- Economics made genuinely entertaining