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Corporate landlords aren't the real villain

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Corporate landlords aren't the real villain

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So you want to buy a house. You MIGHT notice that the owner isn’t a neighbor in your town, but a large corporation. A recent housing bill that passed the Senate wants to change that. This bill would restrict large institutional investors from owning too many single family homes. The hope is to improve affordability. But what’s the real connection between housing affordability and corporate landlords? We look at the evidence. 

Corporate landlords aren't the real villain

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A Kashmiri man scrolls through a social media post featuring Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on his phone in Srinagar on June 28, 2025.

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Is anyone gonna do anything about these Iran War trades?

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Traders have made millions betting on the Iran War. They are also suspiciously timed. No public information, then boom: a Truth Social post from President Trump. Cue fat windfalls for the traders. It’s starting to look a lot like insider trading. 

Is anyone gonna do anything about these Iran War trades?

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Do prediction market bettors make anything better?

In this photo illustration, Predictions market sites are shown on electronic devices on February 25, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. Online prediction market platforms, such as Polymarket and Kalshi, allow people to place bets on wide-ranging subjects such as sports, finance, politics and currents events. Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption

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Do prediction market bettors make anything better?

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Have you noticed a lot of young people getting into antenna-maxxing as alpha? Or, maybe searching for any bit of copium after they fat-fingered and got rinsed? Or maybe they farmed during a yes-fest on Mention Markets resulting in some serious printing? 

Do prediction market bettors make anything better?

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Fed chair, health care, and AI shoe repair

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Fed chair, health care, and AI shoe repair

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It’s Indicators of the Week. Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news. 

Fed chair, health care, and AI shoe repair

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Kuwaiti traders follow the stock market activity at Boursa Kuwait, in Kuwait City on April 7, 2025.

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Fixing the oil crisis might not fix the Persian Gulf

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If the Strait of Hormuz completely reopens, it still might not be enough to restart the economies in the Persian Gulf. Many countries there have been hammered by the oil crisis. And although allowing ships through would stanch the immediate bloodletting in the energy sector, other sectors might not spring back so quickly. Tourists are visiting less. Property markets are at risk. 

Fixing the oil crisis might not fix the Persian Gulf

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A fuel price reading shows on a pump at a fuel station in Plumtree town in Plumtree town on March 18, 2026.

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Think the oil shock is bad in the US? Look here

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Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is pretty slow right now. A once steady stream of global oil has been severed, and oil prices have shot into the stratosphere. Countries across the world are trying to stop the bleeding. One is counting down the days until it runs out of oil. Another is … just fine.

Think the oil shock is bad in the US? Look here

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How to get through the Strait of Hormuz
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How to get through the Strait of Hormuz

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The United States has been at war with Iran since February 28th. And for a month and a half, Iran’s main leverage over the U.S. has been their control over the Strait of Hormuz — a key global shipping route. Iran has attacked ships that try to pass without approval. And recently they’ve insinuated that one part of the Strait — the part near Oman — is not safe. Which means that captains had to go right by Iran’s shores to get through the Strait … effectively creating a chokepoint for the global economy. 

How to get through the Strait of Hormuz

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How the workplace helps you win Survivor

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How the workplace helps you win Survivor

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With the 50th season of Survivor underway, three former Survivor winners tell us how some of the skills they learned in their careers helped them win the show. 

How the workplace helps you win Survivor

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Can you really do what you love?

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Can you really do what you love?

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They say do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. But c’mon. Is that possible in this day and age? On today’s show, we speak to a tech investor who tells us the ingredients he believes are needed to make passion pay. And we hear from an economist who’s run the numbers on luck. 

Can you really do what you love?

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BOOKstore Economics
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BOOKstore Economics

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How do bookstores choose the books they stock, and how does that affect what customers read? It may not seem like it, but every shelf in a bookstore is a highly valuable and contested piece of commercial real estate. And for every new book that a bookstore decides to stock, there are thousands of others that did not make the cut. So how do bookstores make those decisions? And how will the Planet Money book fare under the discerning eyes of the booksellers, the final gatekeepers in the long gauntlet of the publishing industry?

BOOKstore Economics

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The LA28 Olympic cauldron is lit. However, ticket buyers did not find the purchasing process nor the service fees to be as such.
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Class myths, an influx of e-ships, and Olympics tix!

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It’s Indicators of the Week, our weekly look at some of the most fascinating numbers from the news. (Now on YouTube!) 

Class myths, an influx of e-ships, and pricey Olympics tix!

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Where AI data centers are reducing power bills

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Where AI data centers are reducing power bills

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Over the last half decade, wholesale electricity prices have increased 267% in places close to data centers. That’s contributed to a backlash against new ones. 

Where AI data centers are reducing power bills

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How are drivers riding out the gas crisis?

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How are drivers riding out the gas crisis?

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How are drivers riding out the gas crisis?

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A pro-worker experiment in private equity
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A pro-worker experiment in private equity

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Live event info and tickets here. 

A pro-worker experiment in private equity

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A model economy in flowing water.

A model economy in flowing water. Julian Frost for Planet Money: A Guide To The Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
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How Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy

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Bill Phillips was an outsider to economics, but he used a machine and a chart to change the way we think about the government's role in a capitalist economy.

A teenager uses her mobile phone to access social media.

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Why infinite scroll's inventor wants to kill his creation

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We practically live on our phones these days. Scrolling and scrolling, endlessly. Entrepreneur Aza Raskin is responsible for creating this infinite scroll. He also testified against Meta, who have been under fire — and in court — charged with making their apps addictive to children.  

Why infinite scroll's inventor wants to kill his creation

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President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Beth Hammack, and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Austan Goolsbee.

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Is the economy red, orange, yellow or green?

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Is the economy red, orange, yellow or green?

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Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation
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Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation

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Reese’s heir vs. chocolate skimpflation

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Howard University graduates line up
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Jobs that new college grads are (and are not) landing

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Jobs that new college grads are and are not landing

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A public goods stamp from the Planet Money book.

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Greetings from: Our favorite public goods

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Freedom of the Seas. GPS. The Large Hadron Collider. These are all public goods that make our world more prosperous, accurate, and knowledgeable. But we don’t always give them the attention they deserve. 

Greetings from: Our favorite public goods

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Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment
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Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment

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Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment

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