Planet Money

We picked Planet Money for the way it turns economic abstractions into specific, reported stories. Where other shows explain what a policy means, this one shows how it works on the ground: a charity calculating child mortality to allocate funding, or a customs lawyer parsing the statutory language behind tariffs. The hosts treat economics as a series of choices and trade-offs, not a set of forces. The result is a feed where macroeconomics and personal finance share the same logic, told at a pace that respects the listener's time without flattening the subject.