Jacob Goldstein

We try to figure out what makes cents.

We try to tell the difference between correlation and causation.

Just because marijuana is now legal in Canada doesn't mean the market for it is easily quantifiable.

Bill Nordhaus just won the economics Nobel. In this show: He shows how history of light is the history of economic growth — of things getting faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

Politicians have argued for decades that CEOs are overpaid. But there's this precise moment in the 1990s when CEO pay suddenly shot up. We find out what happened.

Class actions run from big civil rights cases to arguments about pepper. Are they noble, or silly?

A man who got caught insider trading explains everything — what he did, how he did it, and why.

Behind almost all of the popular music you hear today, there is a hidden, high-tech, economy. The Planet Money podcast has a story about a music producer who helped create this world.

Google just got hit with a multibillion-dollar antitrust fine. Here's what it tells us about competition, market power, and the biggest corporations on the planet.

News moves fast. Some of our best stories from this year have new chapters. Here, we catch up on three: Dirty trademarks, trading bots, and the war against the bald eagle.

Sam Cohen buys stuff at big retail stores, then turns around and sells it on Amazon for a quick profit. It defies economic logic. But somehow, there's a whole multimillion-dollar industry doing this.

On today's show: The story of two guys who tried to cut the pay of a CEO at a small pneumatic tool company.

We run through the entire federal budget — in 10 minutes. More than $6 billion per second. Go.

We visit a company where people work on figuring out how to make stuff get cheaper.

In Washington, D.C., there is a place where millions of dollars in ripped, burned, and water-soaked dollar bills are made new. On today's show, we get inside that room.

Flip-floppers, this one's for you. Changing your mind is hard, but it's one of the smartest things you can do.

A man goes looking for the invisible wall that traps poor people in poverty. Finding it almost gets him killed.

You can name your business whatever you want. But the government won't register it as a trademark if it thinks it's offensive. It gets weird when you try to decide what is too offensive to trademark.

How fast is the world really changing? The answer has implications for everything from how the next generation will live to whether robots really will take all our jobs.

The creation of the electronic spreadsheet transformed industries. But its effects ran deeper than that.