Planet Money Paper Club

Live event info and tickets here. When ingredient costs skyrocket, companies have three basic options: They can raise their prices (a sort of product-specific inflation), shrink the size of the products (often called “shrinkflation”), or, sometimes, find more creative ways to red ...  Show more

Live event info and tickets here. For more than 60 years, Cuba has survived on two seemingly contradictory economic strategies: leaning on friendly communist and socialist countries, and flirting with capitalism. And right now it seems the US is making both strategies impossible. ...  Show more

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 Johnson, says that influence has been there since the birth of economics. Call it political economy. Call it government and bu ...  Show more

People are spending loads of cash on events. In addition, lots of folks are even making trips out of specific events like the Olympics or Taylor Swift concerts. This sports and music tourism industry is gaining momentum among Millennials and Gen Z, so much that it’s heading for p ...  Show more

When it comes to women controlling their own economic destinies, perhaps nothing has had a more profound impact than the contraceptive pill. But the US may be on the cusp of change. Earlier this year, the Trump administration froze some federal funding for subsidised access to co ...  Show more

Joe Rogan signed a deal with Spotify in 2020 for $250m. That deal has inspired many more multi-million dollar superstar podcast deals like Trevor Noah, the Kelce brothers and Alex Cooper. So in the $20B podcast industry, is there any room for smaller creators to make money? Or is ...  Show more