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Website ↗ Last published 31 October 2026 451 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Planet Money

“The unnerving thing about what we're seeing in France is that what's happening there rhymes with a lot of what's been happening here in Washington. You think the French government has a lot of debt? The U.S. government has more debt. You think France is running huge budget deficits every year? We are running even bigger deficits. … The most important thing that the U.S. still has right now is credibility. Somehow, people still think that despite all our government borrowing, all our deficit spending, all our political dysfunction, that the U.S. is going to turn it around someday, eventually.” — Jeff Guo, Planet Money
Jeff Guo · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I thought, you know, a good way to cut down stops, just film everybody instead.” — Joe Pascarella, Planet Money
Joe Pascarella · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Over the past 35 years, we have gone from practically no cameras in the streets to practically no streets without cameras.” — Amanda Aronczyk, Planet Money
Amanda Aronczyk · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The roads of Sundance past are littered with the bodies of films that got overhyped. The hot film coming into Sundance is never the hot film going out of Sundance. And so if you have a film that you think can be successful, it may seem counterintuitive, but the best instinct there is to downplay it, to create the lowest expectations possible while getting all the necessary people in the theater.” — John Sloss, Planet Money
John Sloss · 16 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Is it absolutely physically impossible for them to untangle that? Maybe not, but at what point are you like, well, we spent more money figuring out who we owed $5 to than was worth each person's $5.” — Maureen Thorson, Planet Money
Maureen Thorson · 9 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The human body does not need any of this stuff for the most part. We could all just be drinking water. But the beverage industry has figured out that if they invent new kinds of drinks, they can invent new reasons for us to not drink water and spend money on their beverages instead.” — Jeff Guo, Planet Money
Jeff Guo · 2 Oct 2026 Listen →
“There's a ton of dentists. So dentists earn more income than all of the professional sports leagues combined.” — Eric Zwick, Planet Money
Eric Zwick · 25 Sep 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Planet Money is hosted by Jeff Guo , Kenny Malone , Erika Beras , Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi , Robert Smith , Nick Fountain , Amanda Aronczyk , Sarah Gonzalez , Mary Childs , Keith Romer , Wailin Wong and Darian Woods .

Recent Episodes

  1. 31 Oct 2026

    Is this how the great international borrowing spree ends?

    With Tomas Philippon , Olivier Blanchard , Sydney Jassé and Julie Biat

  2. 28 Oct 2026

    Politicians are afraid to fix taxes. So 100 citizens tried.

    With Elene Landemore , Sean Scanlon , Jasmine Dawson , Bob Bailey , Riley Jano and Stacey McIver

  3. 23 Oct 2026

    How surveillance crept up on us

    With Michelle Dahl and Joe Pascarella

  4. 21 Oct 2026

    We try to fix election polling (update)

    With Barbara Carvalho

  5. 16 Oct 2026

    Anatomy of a movie market

    With John Sloss and Eric Sloss

  6. 14 Oct 2026

    Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help.

    With Janet Mertz , Alex Capron and Michael Rogers

  7. 9 Oct 2026

    Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now?

    With Cable Sasser and Maureen Thorson

  8. 7 Oct 2026

    Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam)

    With Mitch Zuckoff

  9. 2 Oct 2026

    Where all those weird new drinks are coming from

    With Evan Floyd , Tom Gibson , Kristen Weman , Dave Defoe , Monica Horn and Katie Clark

  10. 30 Sep 2026

    Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security?

    With Steve Goss , Douglas Arnold and Kathleen Romig

  11. 25 Sep 2026

    Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs

    With Eric Zwick

  12. 23 Sep 2026

    Is our national debt finally too much? (update)

    With Karen Dinan and Kenneth Rogoff

Guests

Melanie Benish (2 episodes), Karen Duffin (2 episodes), Shai Akabas (2 episodes), Olivier Blanchard (2 episodes), David Autor (2 episodes), Tom Gibson , Hilda Bjornland , Janet Yellen , Angela Lee , Abel Brodeur , Lev Menand , Valerie Barecki , and 211 more.