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Our planet is in serious trouble. There are a million species of plants and animals in danger of extinction, and the biggest cause is companies destroying their…

OIRA — the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs — is an obscure, but powerful federal office around the corner from the White House. President Trump has…

On today's show: we're ... venting. We at Planet Money are an ensemble show – each with different curiosities and styles. But we recently realized many of us ha…

What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency, but most of its actions have been shrouded in secrecy.For m…

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon Johnso…

We all know the government uses taxes to pay for things. But what about using taxes to control behavior? This week on Summer School, Professor Darrick Hamilton …

Although it seems like the government can spend an endless amount of money, it cannot actually do all the things it wants to do. So the big question in this wee…

LIVE SHOW ALERT: August 18th, NYC. Get your tickets here. When news broke that a Japanese company, Nippon Steel, was buying the storied American steel company U…

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here . There are occasional incentives in business that make it very profitable to do bad things; maybe cheat at the…

LIVE SHOW: August 18th in Brooklyn. Tickets here . Traditional economics says the market is guided by the forces of supply and demand. Customers decide what the…