economists
When economists and policymakers talk about getting inflation under control, there's an assumption they often make: bringing inflation down will probably result…
Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national debt. A major concern is how the debt you add now could slow d…
(For our story on this year's Nobel in Economics, check out our daily show, The Indicator !) Let's face it. Economics is filled with terms that don't always mak…
Why do some nations fail and others succeed? In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists th…
Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators! From the more practical (li…
Trust in experts is down. In all kinds of institutions and professions - in government, in media, in medical science... and lately, economists are feeling the b…
With the year coming to a close, we're sharing our most popular Planet Money bonus episode of 2025! As U.S. trade with China exploded in the early 2000's, Ameri…
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 are famously …
David Henderson, editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts a…
Pete Boettke, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins and tenets of Austrian economics. This is a wonderful introduc…
