Greg Rosalsky

One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.

Why people are buying their own firetrucks.

COVID-19 and tariffs are reconfiguring trade. And companies are reevaluating how and where their products get made.

In-person service jobs, which have been hit hard by the pandemic, are disproportionately done by women. Yet the unemployment rate is only part of the story.

With governments ordering some public places to close during the pandemic, "speak-easy gyms" are popping up across America — and some have even managed to increase their memberships.

COVID-19 safeguards have created a black market for gyms.

Viral conspiracy theories are dangerous, and maybe profitable.

Congress is debating the next relief package, and a sticking point in negotiations is liability reform. Republicans argue that businesses should be protected from pandemic-related lawsuits.

The debate over liability and the coronavirus.

Restaurants are getting squeezed. How many will survive? And what should we do about it?

The United States is experiencing a shortage of coins. And people who have been trying to get the U.S. Mint to ditch the penny for years say it is the perfect time to try again.

As America experiences a coin shortage, Planet Money takes a look at the value of the penny.

Cheap beer sales are surging but are still losing ground to craft beer. Yet craft breweries are still suffering. What is going on?

A new study shows that about half of the entire workforce is now remote. The case for why "this portends a much bigger shift in the economy."

A blockbuster new study digs into the economics of the pandemic.

Despite turmoil in the real economy, the stock market spent months surging. That is, until recently. We speak with a Nobel laureate about what might be happening.

Despite political and social progress, African Americans still lag far behind economically.

Coronavirus has shed light on centuries of racial economic inequality. NPR's podcast The Indicator from Planet Money looks at how COVID-19 and the recession are hitting black Americans hard.

The problem goes deeper than police misconduct.

Among the bottom fifth of income earners, who are more likely to be black and Latino, about 35% of them lost their jobs.