Intro Econ 6: Taxes & Donald Duck

Get your own personalized summer school diploma here.Today on our final episode of Summer School 2025, we will test your knowledge. We will salute the unsung heroes of government service. And we will pick our valedictorian from among you of the class of 2025.Editorial Note:Presid ...  Show more

Find all episodes of Planet Money Summer School here. Tariffs are the favorite tool of our current president, but there are lots of other ways that governments insert themselves into the free exchange of goods and services. Some of these trade barriers are so insidious and have b ...  Show more

I never intended that this show become “The Entrepreneur’s Hour,” but that seems to be a central theme! Today, I share some data that I stumbled upon from an IRS analysis of the 400 highest income tax returns. The results? Here are the income sources for the top 400 tax returns: ...  Show more

The journey to financial success is all about paying the ‘right’ amount of tax. Finance journalist David ‘Kochie’ Koch explains how you can take the stress out of tax time, avoid paying too much tax and outlines what you can and can’t claim for at the end of the tax year.See omny ...  Show more

<span>A look at Trump’s tax data from his early years gives us a road map of what his current forms might tell us.</span>

Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Elon Musk and George Soros are household names. They are among the wealthiest people in the United States.

But a recent report by ProPublica has found another thing that separates them from regular Americans citizens: They have paid almost ...