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Recently, the state of Washington embarked on an ambitious new plan to combat climate change. Taking a page from economics textbooks, the state instituted a sta…

Even in our modern world with planes and jets and drones, the vast majority of goods are moved around the planet in cargo ships. Which means our ports are the b…

(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…

Over the past two decades, there's been a sort of tectonic economic shift happening under our feet. More and more companies have switched from selling goods one…

On today's show, we have two stories from The Indicator , Planet Money 's daily podcast. They just launched Love Week, a weeklong series exploring the business …

There's something strange going on in hospitals. Cheap, common drugs that nurses use every day seem to be constantly hit by shortages. These are often generic d…

If you... exist in the world, it's likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing you that your data was stolen. This happened recently t…

Ray and Becky Queen live in rural Oklahoma with their kids (and chickens). The Queens were able to buy that home with a VA loan because of Ray's service in the …

Back in the 90s, the federal government ran a bold experiment, giving people vouchers to move out of high-poverty neighborhoods into low-poverty ones. They want…

On the day after the election, Wall Street responded in a dramatic way. Some stocks went way up, others went way down. By reading those signals — by breaking do…