Not worth even trying to listen. Constant ads, unbearable.

This show is fantastic. I really love the content. it’s such a disappointment when shows like this become woke. I don’t think the show has ever criticized Joe Biden. Maybe for once they can conclude that a problem is a result of Joe Biden‘s economic policy instead of random chance. despite this, I think the hosts of this podcast are great. Please just leave out your bias and tell us the facts.

There are already plenty of ads on the regular shows. Now they mix in the paywall episodes that take up the feed, but no one is going to pay for. Just do a stand a one premium podcast and see if anyone wants to pay for that.

NPR canned their own employee who dared point out the obvious regarding their conscious and purposeful biases and bigotry/racism. How the mighty have fallen. Guessing NPR is quaking in their boots at the idea of a 2nd T-Rump presidency. Got to love the left who hate the cis-white male but live off their tax dollars.

I think it would behoove Planet Money to tell Wall Street that if Donald Trump wins most of us on the left are never buying another new car. We are never buying new appliances, we are never buying bigger homes . We aren’t buying anything without it being an absolute necessity ever again. And when I die, I’m not going into a nursing home and spending all my money there. I’m going to go on my own. No money is going to Wall Street for the rest of my life.

This podcast is my only remaining interaction with NPR. I’ve gone from an avid listener to just this podcast in the last decade but I’m seriously thinking of unsubscribing due to the horrendous bigotry and bias of NPR. An organization that supposedly is a champion of free speech just punished an internal whistleblower who pointed out the same leftward bigotry. How this corrupt organization still receives tax money is beyond me. If this was a public company they would have been sanctioned by the SEC for abusing a whistleblower.

Checked in recently; it’s gotten worse … just a little. Of course the answer to racial inequality is to give black families more money. And of course democracy is in danger from Trump and polarization. Maybe if news outlets like this would just once in a while hire a conservative, you’d see a bit more trust and a little less polarization. (Old review) Years ago, I gave this 5 stars; was one of my top 3. Sadly, NPR management must have listened to an episode and found there were not enough democratic advertisements. So, they went political. Recently, it’s gotten better, but still too biased for me to trust them. Too bad. I miss the old one. The Robocall invasion, the value of an index traded fund, even the Starbury just surprised me in a good way. But the FTX episode was outstanding, so I’ll keep them for now.

Great when focused on economics but too often drifts into showcasing liberal policy ideas. I don’t think the producers even realize their bias. Nonetheless, they nail it when they discuss core economic theories, such as the weight of the cow episode.

I just heard the episode in which the Economics Paper Club was introduced. I loved it! Great idea! Looking forward to more.

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How much money does it cost each taxpayer to support undocumented migrants (fka illegal immigrants)? I’m sure it’s more than $11 or even $169 per taxpayer per year.

And it’s definitely worth it! Keep up the great work, Planet Money and Indicator family!

Planet money is reson I know anything about economics. Also the story’s they report on are very fun for all ages coming from a kid myself planet money makes economics more interesting. (Don’t listen to the bad reviews) (thank you planet money)😀

Planet Money is a good show besides the occasional bias. It really makes economics fun to learn and simple to understand, its funny and generally entertaining to a wide variety of people, I hope some people behind these negative reviews take a second opinion.

In the latest episode, they mentioned Israel “defending itself” from Hamas. This is support of the genocide of the Palestinian people. I did love listening to Planet Money but I can no longer support them.

Goofy laughing and the Spanish accent is annoying on a podcast. Sorry; guess I’m just not “woke” enough.

good show. Interesting topics and perspectives. I am surprised though that one of the issues raised with legalizing the organ market wasn’t the use of kids from third world countries. Many countries don’t allow Americans to adopt their children because there are people out there who adopt the children then sell the kid’s organ on the black market. If you make the market legal, I think it would still be difficult to regulate that aspect. Except possibly raise supply and make the organs less profitable, but I don’t see that happening soon even in a legal market. I would’ve been interested in hearing the economists thoughts on that issue.

Is the take that made me unsubscribe… the fact that they want me to believe that insider trading would MORE efficiently allocate resources was just the cherry on top of that particular excrement sandwich

I’ve listened to a lot of Planet Money episodes. Aside from questionable economic reporting/education, plan to skip the first 6 minutes. After that it’s about 40% superfluous conversation. I hope it improves from where it’s at now.

One of the best shows out there! I have been so impressed by there ability to take certain experiments and concepts into the real world. What they did with a defunct superhero and Planet Money Records stand out on that front. Give it a try and you’ll find some info that really applies to your life!

Great show really fun, makes economics more fun don’t listen to the negative reviews.

Change your name to planet propaganda.

Love hearing these great stories tied to economic issues. What a pro show!

I love Planet Money despite of all the comments.

I have been listening to Planet Money since the beginning and I’ve heard every single episode ever made. It has been clear for sometime that this show is not as good as it once was but the episode that I just listened to is a new low. The hosts’ preference for dumb gimmicks over good economic reporting has gotten so extreme that it is getting hard to listen to. Not only is Econ battle zone a bad format for teaching economics, but it’s a stupid concept. It’s what you do when you don’t really have any new information or concepts to share in an interesting way. The quality of this show has ebbed and flowed over time so I’m hoping that this show will get good again if I stick with it.

They need to apologize for pushing MMT

I had a hard time listening to a financial podcast that claims beliefs cause inflation and not government over printing money several months ago. I’m going to stick with Milton Friedman. Unsubscribe to this propaganda podcast. Today’s podcast was essentially “We don’t need a debt ceiling” and everything will be great if we just keep on spending. Sorry. It doesn’t work for personal finance and it doesn’t work for governments either. Drop the politics and stick with finance please.

On one episode about why Americans feel bad about the economy I thought they might have been talking about another reality timeline in the multiverse. Telling everyone unemployment is down and inflation slowing so we should be feeling all feel happier now is insane. Listing a few big picture indicators only tells half the story. I’ve heard these talking points pushed by the WH press secretary. Plus the comparisons to the 70’s economic malaise was laughable. Especially by these host that didn’t even exist back then. We should be happy that we don’t have the gas lines of the 70s. Not the apples to apples comparison it should be. To me I could tell this was an agenda driven bunch of NPR garbage disguised as fact based money talk.

Unsubscribing- way to glorify dealing drugs.

Never boring. This show does a great job of covering a wide variety of fascinating topics.

I loooove this show so much! Listen now!

So far, I’ve taken a dive into these podcasts and have only heard one episode that was fully an opinion piece. Even though that episode wasn’t great, the rest of them have been pretty interesting and I like the fact that there are different hosts. If I don’t like the narrative of one, I can just skip it. Overall, even though biases are more obvious than some other podcasts- it hasn’t changed the interest I feel in this show. I’ve learned about funny, interesting and sometimes bizarre topics that I otherwise wouldn’t have heard of. And learning an overview of new topics is something that interests me, so I’d recommend giving it a listen.

Typical smug npr. Not awful but mildly annoying

As one of over 200 million visitors to the Bass Pro Shops annually, in more than 200 stores in North America, I took offense to this episode. The narrators showed an opinionated negative bias and insensitivity to those who wear proudly the Bass Pro Shops logo. This reinforced the stigma of NPR Elitism.

These usually are not even usually twice as long as the daily version

The vacation episode on Planet money is why I stopped supporting NPR and PBS broadcasting, The vacation episode is less factual and more opionionated . Of course RACISM is the reason why no guaranteed vacation/health insurance/pensions in United States, white people did not want people of color to have any benefits. so whites choose not to pursue guaranteed vacations. Totally garbage, so many NPR/PBS views are about racism, equity etc, Skip the facts, just state opinions. What about Obama care federal regulations regarding healthcare.

The last 3 years has been a downhill slide and I just saw they started putting up a paywall for any worthwhile episodes. When this show started they covered very interesting and useful topics on finance and the economy. By 2019 that turned into “How many pickles did the US export last year?” kind of episode and lower quality informative episodes on the economy. Now it’s all poor quality episodes, and they charge for mediocre episodes that are lower quality information than the free episodes 5 years ago!

A podcast you could listen to if you want to

Her voice is so annoying. Her going on about how she had so much vacation and decided not to take it is super privileged and a lot of people would kill for time off but work in places that don’t allow it.

The Planet Money team needs to do something about this awful Kim Kardashian speech pattern from Erika Beras at the end of phrases. It’s very annoying and distracting. It seems that “vocal fry” is a disease that's spreading throughout female reporters. Intervention, someone?

Ultra-arrogant and rude Adam Davidson should have been fired by NPR immediately after his atrociously bad interview of Elizabeth Warren in May 2009. He violated many of the core principles of journalism by repeatedly ridiculing a much smarter woman whose briefcase he has not yet earned the right to carry. Shame on NPR for continuing its anti-consumer, anti-small-business, pro-monopoly, pro-megacorporation biases of 2001-2008 into 2009. Paper Club episode in 2023 was another kind of awful. Pretending to be very open but instead entirely focused on a narrow niche of women economists obsessed with discrimination against women in the workplace and with too much workplace discussion about limitations of mothers, but they themselves practiced and reinforced that obsession, and they even bizarrely re-interpreted discrimination against fathers to instead be discrimination against mothers!

PLEASE continue the paper club i love this!! would be cool to explore many areas through the pay it forward recommendation chain :)

Her voice is so annoying! Must she accentuate every word with a Spanish accent? It’s totally fine if you have an accent. But she goes back and forth from accent to no accent and it sounds really fake and like she is trying too hard. That episode where she said ‘cilantro’ honestly sounded like a nail on the chalkboard. But otherwise love the show! I learn a lot.

Use to listen all the time because the shows seems incredibly relevant but now the shows seem almost pointless and don’t seem to offer what they once did.

Highly recommend

Super, thanks for sharing!

Whoever said that dumb comment about mothers knowing more should realize that that is just the average. If a father is the person who the Family wants to be called, the school should listen and call the father instead of just going against what the parents said, and calling the wrong person. Also, interviews like that can be quite bias!!!

Have you watched video of interviewer asking parents questions about their school age kids in front of the kids? I understand why schools call mothers. Mothers knew everything. Fathers were embarrassingly clueless about name of school, grade, names of elementary school teachers, best friends.

Very informative, within short episodes!

I’d like a button for the word “the” I’m tired of typing it in search boxes. Keep up the great work!