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For years, our entrepreneurial spirit animal has been Ben & Jerry… And now we get to sit down with Ben (the Ben) of Ben & Jerry. A guy who got his business start by making up numbers (literally).This hippie launched the biggest ice cream brand in America with his best friend from ...  Show more

Toy Story 5 reveals an existential question… Is Hollywood just a bunch of Hand-Me-Downs?SpaceX is moon-meming, it’s now bigger than Amazon… because the stock market is Elon’s ATM.We interviewed Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream… and whipped up a taste of it for you (literally) ...  Show more

Lately we've noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators!From the more practical (like sales for lipstick going up and men's underwear going down) to the absurd and nonsensical (like babysitter buns coming ...  Show more

It is rare that a new e-commerce company has such a meteoric rise as Temu. The company, which launched in the fall of 2022, has been flooding the American advertising market, buying much of the inventory of Facebook, Snapchat, and beyond. According to the market intelligence firm ...  Show more

How do you run a business when a trade war is brewing? As President Trump's tariffs kick in - or are paused or are restarted - businesses around the world are trying to navigate the uncertainty.And, while trade is this big global thing, it is made up of individual farmers and bus ...  Show more

What are tariffs good for?For years, mainstream economists have basically said: tariffs are not good. They are an import tax paid by consumers, they've said, and they discourage free trade, and we want more! Because free trade has broadly led to more global economic growth.But gl ...  Show more