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Meet high rollers, brainy economists and regular folks — all trying to make sense of our rapidly changing global economy. From NPR.

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Money makes the world go around, faster and faster every day. On NPR’s Planet Money, you’ll meet high rollers, brainy economists and regular folks — all trying to make sense of our rapidly changing global economy.

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  • Mask Communication

    Why won’t some people wear masks? Is there anything we can do to convince them? We look to behavioral economics for help. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

    Listen — 26:26

  • Trade & Santa

    The economics of free trade and what happens when governments get involved.

    Listen — 26:24

  • College Fails

    The pandemic is transforming college from a can’t-miss into a can’t-attend experience. Can colleges survive? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

    Listen — 18:27

  • Pistachios & Scarcity

    Class 4 brings us an economic conundrum: how do you efficiently share a scarce resource? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

    Listen — 28:31

  • Rest of the Story, Pandemic Edition

    Rest of the Story, Pandemic Edition We check in on the people we’ve met and stories we’ve covered since this whole thing started. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

    Listen — 25:32

  • Profit & Cocaine

    In our third class, we take all that we’ve learned about decisions and markets and bring it to a former drug kingpin. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

    Listen — 27:58

  • The Kerner Commission

    In 1967, President Johnson created a commission to investigate racial unrest in America. But, the answer they came up with was not the answer he was hoping for. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter …

    Listen — 26:24

  • Getting Out Of Prison Sooner

    Shortening prison sentences might be about morals, but it’s definitely about money. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

    Listen — 27:51

  • Markets & Pickles

    In our second class, we meet our old friends supply and demand and do graphs using only the power of the human voice. Then, we show you how markets can be created anywhere by telling the story of a …

    Listen — 31:23

  • Hollywood’s Black List

    In 2005, an anonymous list of the best unmade scripts in Hollywood shook up the movie biz. This episode: how a math-loving, movie nerd solved Hollywood’s script problem. | Subscribe to our weekly …

    Listen — 24:20