I just heard the episode in which the Economics Paper Club was introduced. I loved it! Great idea! Looking forward to more.

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How much money does it cost each taxpayer to support undocumented migrants (fka illegal immigrants)? I’m sure it’s more than $11 or even $169 per taxpayer per year.

And it’s definitely worth it! Keep up the great work, Planet Money and Indicator family!

Planet money is reson I know anything about economics. Also the story’s they report on are very fun for all ages coming from a kid myself planet money makes economics more interesting. (Don’t listen to the bad reviews) (thank you planet money)😀

Planet Money is a good show besides the occasional bias. It really makes economics fun to learn and simple to understand, its funny and generally entertaining to a wide variety of people, I hope some people behind these negative reviews take a second opinion.

In the latest episode, they mentioned Israel “defending itself” from Hamas. This is support of the genocide of the Palestinian people. I did love listening to Planet Money but I can no longer support them.

Goofy laughing and the Spanish accent is annoying on a podcast. Sorry; guess I’m just not “woke” enough.

good show. Interesting topics and perspectives. I am surprised though that one of the issues raised with legalizing the organ market wasn’t the use of kids from third world countries. Many countries don’t allow Americans to adopt their children because there are people out there who adopt the children then sell the kid’s organ on the black market. If you make the market legal, I think it would still be difficult to regulate that aspect. Except possibly raise supply and make the organs less profitable, but I don’t see that happening soon even in a legal market. I would’ve been interested in hearing the economists thoughts on that issue.

Is the take that made me unsubscribe… the fact that they want me to believe that insider trading would MORE efficiently allocate resources was just the cherry on top of that particular excrement sandwich

I’ve listened to a lot of Planet Money episodes. Aside from questionable economic reporting/education, plan to skip the first 6 minutes. After that it’s about 40% superfluous conversation. I hope it improves from where it’s at now.

One of the best shows out there! I have been so impressed by there ability to take certain experiments and concepts into the real world. What they did with a defunct superhero and Planet Money Records stand out on that front. Give it a try and you’ll find some info that really applies to your life!

Great show really fun, makes economics more fun don’t listen to the negative reviews.

Change your name to planet propaganda.

Love hearing these great stories tied to economic issues. What a pro show!

I love Planet Money despite of all the comments.

I have been listening to Planet Money since the beginning and I’ve heard every single episode ever made. It has been clear for sometime that this show is not as good as it once was but the episode that I just listened to is a new low. The hosts’ preference for dumb gimmicks over good economic reporting has gotten so extreme that it is getting hard to listen to. Not only is Econ battle zone a bad format for teaching economics, but it’s a stupid concept. It’s what you do when you don’t really have any new information or concepts to share in an interesting way. The quality of this show has ebbed and flowed over time so I’m hoping that this show will get good again if I stick with it.

They need to apologize for pushing MMT

I had a hard time listening to a financial podcast that claims beliefs cause inflation and not government over printing money several months ago. I’m going to stick with Milton Friedman. Unsubscribe to this propaganda podcast. Today’s podcast was essentially “We don’t need a debt ceiling” and everything will be great if we just keep on spending. Sorry. It doesn’t work for personal finance and it doesn’t work for governments either. Drop the politics and stick with finance please.

On one episode about why Americans feel bad about the economy I thought they might have been talking about another reality timeline in the multiverse. Telling everyone unemployment is down and inflation slowing so we should be feeling all feel happier now is insane. Listing a few big picture indicators only tells half the story. I’ve heard these talking points pushed by the WH press secretary. Plus the comparisons to the 70’s economic malaise was laughable. Especially by these host that didn’t even exist back then. We should be happy that we don’t have the gas lines of the 70s. Not the apples to apples comparison it should be. To me I could tell this was an agenda driven bunch of NPR garbage disguised as fact based money talk.

Unsubscribing- way to glorify dealing drugs.

Never boring. This show does a great job of covering a wide variety of fascinating topics.

I loooove this show so much! Listen now!

So far, I’ve taken a dive into these podcasts and have only heard one episode that was fully an opinion piece. Even though that episode wasn’t great, the rest of them have been pretty interesting and I like the fact that there are different hosts. If I don’t like the narrative of one, I can just skip it. Overall, even though biases are more obvious than some other podcasts- it hasn’t changed the interest I feel in this show. I’ve learned about funny, interesting and sometimes bizarre topics that I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. And learning an overview of new topics is something that interests me, so I’d recommend giving it a listen.

Typical smug npr. Not awful but mildly annoying

As one of over 200 million visitors to the Bass Pro Shops annually, in more than 200 stores in North America, I took offense to this episode. The narrators showed an opinionated negative bias and insensitivity to those who wear proudly the Bass Pro Shops logo. This reinforced the stigma of NPR Elitism.

These usually are not even usually twice as long as the daily version

The vacation episode on Planet money is why I stopped supporting NPR and PBS broadcasting, The vacation episode is less factual and more opionionated . Of course RACISM is the reason why no guaranteed vacation/health insurance/pensions in United States, white people did not want people of color to have any benefits. so whites choose not to pursue guaranteed vacations. Totally garbage, so many NPR/PBS views are about racism, equity etc, Skip the facts, just state opinions. What about Obama care federal regulations regarding healthcare.

The last 3 years has been a downhill slide and I just saw they started putting up a paywall for any worthwhile episodes. When this show started they covered very interesting and useful topics on finance and the economy. By 2019 that turned into “How many pickles did the US export last year?” kind of episode and lower quality informative episodes on the economy. Now it’s all poor quality episodes, and they charge for mediocre episodes that are lower quality information than the free episodes 5 years ago!

A podcast you could listen to if you want to

Her voice is so annoying. Her going on about how she had so much vacation and decided not to take it is super privileged and a lot of people would kill for time off but work in places that don’t allow it.

The Planet Money team needs to do something about this awful Kim Kardashian speech pattern from Erika Beras at the end of phrases. It’s very annoying and distracting. It seems that “vocal fry” is a disease that's spreading throughout female reporters. Intervention, someone?

Ultra-arrogant and rude Adam Davidson should have been fired by NPR immediately after his atrociously bad interview of Elizabeth Warren in May 2009. He violated many of the core principles of journalism by repeatedly ridiculing a much smarter woman whose briefcase he has not yet earned the right to carry. Shame on NPR for continuing its anti-consumer, anti-small-business, pro-monopoly, pro-megacorporation biases of 2001-2008 into 2009. Paper Club episode in 2023 was another kind of awful. Pretending to be very open but instead entirely focused on a narrow niche of women economists obsessed with discrimination against women in the workplace and with too much workplace discussion about limitations of mothers, but they themselves practiced and reinforced that obsession, and they even bizarrely re-interpreted discrimination against fathers to instead be discrimination against mothers!

PLEASE continue the paper club i love this!! would be cool to explore many areas through the pay it forward recommendation chain :)

Her voice is so annoying! Must she accentuate every word with a Spanish accent? It’s totally fine if you have an accent. But she goes back and forth from accent to no accent and it sounds really fake and like she is trying too hard. That episode where she said ‘cilantro’ honestly sounded like a nail on the chalkboard. But otherwise love the show! I learn a lot.

Use to listen all the time because the shows seems incredibly relevant but now the shows seem almost pointless and don’t seem to offer what they once did.

Highly recommend

Super, thanks for sharing!

Whoever said that dumb comment about mothers knowing more should realize that that is just the average. If a father is the person who the Family wants to be called, the school should listen and call the father instead of just going against what the parents said, and calling the wrong person. Also, interviews like that can be quite bias!!!

Have you watched video of interviewer asking parents questions about their school age kids in front of the kids? I understand why schools call mothers. Mothers knew everything. Fathers were embarrassingly clueless about name of school, grade, names of elementary school teachers, best friends.

Very informative, within short episodes!

I’d like a button for the word “the” I’m tired of typing it in search boxes. Keep up the great work!

You’re ignoring the real world now. You have terrible guests that only cover unfounded theories. Go back to true money issues not nice theoretical ideas you wish were true.

Great story telling that balances principles, and sometimes math, with entertainment. I particularly like their goofy “experiments”. How many “econ” (or other scholarly sounding) reporters are willing to set themselves up as “extreme newbie” tradesmen and tradeswomen just to prove a point? Hauling Christmas trees from tree farm to New York streets, and losing their shirts in the process (if wages are in the cost)? Who doesn’t like an econ radio superhero, with actual comic book and merch to boot? And my new favorite (my teen daughter’s, too), the astounding success of Planet Money Records. Yes, Planet Money has its own record label! Look them up in your favorite music app if you haven’t. Search “Inflation” - yes, this is an econ label no less. Or search Earnest Jackson. Inflation (the song) is super catchy. The inflation Jackson sang about was the talk of the nation - after the oil crisis that was, not your 2021-2023 flavor. Haven’t heard of Reagan? Look it up!

Great podcast on economics.

So crazy to hear a podcast publish an uncritical episode about using randomized control trials for international development. Hardly a word about all the criticism this approach has received for its questionable ethics. And are we really still citing the well debunked deworming study that was proven to have relied on bad data? Irresponsible journalism.

Just listened to episode on discount window. 100% propaganda. Fed sycophant hosts euphorically praise bailouts for the rich, while ignoring resulting inflation, cost of living crisis, and permanent debt serfdom for everyone else. Defund NPR

Sometimes they are not… really depends on when they allow opposing views. Don't be afraid to skip some to get to the good ones.

This used to be my favorite podcast, but unfortunately the last few years have seen it go way downhill. With the last episode making the outrageous claim that corporate profiteering is the cause of inflation… I think I’m finally going to pull the plug and unsubscribe. Did you guys ever consider that a key reason corporations were *able* to raise prices post-pandemic is the huge amount of stimulus money poured into peoples’ pockets? If you did, you didn’t bother to mention it anywhere in the episode. Corporations have always charged as much as they can get away with, and stimulus is obviously at least one of the reasons (likely the only reason) they could get away with more. No serious economist would completely ignore this fact, but of course they tracked down the one goofball who does and interviewed them. The level of bias reminds me of the inflation bogeyman episode on the Indicator a couple years ago, a complete propaganda piece which portrayed inflation as an imaginary monster under the bed. That sure aged well! Unfortunately Planet Money has now stooped to the same level. 👋

Shame on you for hawking ai. It’s not going to rebuild the middle class it’s just going to take jobs