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Planet Money
NPR explains the economy through stories. Listen to Planet Money online with a synced transcript. Replay sentence by sentence, check translations, get AI explanations, and shadow each line in GoodScriber.
24 audio lessons, 13 h 50 min in total. Levels: Intermediate.
Lessons
| # | Title | Length | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anatomy of a movie market | 35:58 | Intermediate |
| 2 | Wanna slow down AI? These biologists can help. | 32:35 | Intermediate |
| 3 | Should we all be getting tariff refunds right now? | 33:11 | Intermediate |
| 4 | Charles Ponzi's scheme (plus a new scam) | 29:14 | Intermediate |
| 5 | Where all those weird new drinks are coming from | 33:14 | Intermediate |
| 6 | Who’s gonna pay for your Social Security? | 32:46 | Intermediate |
| 7 | Middlegarchs are the new Oligarchs | 34:07 | Intermediate |
| 8 | Is our national debt finally too much? (update) | 33:25 | Intermediate |
| 9 | The Domino’s Pizza Tracker Theory of Everything | 35:53 | Intermediate |
| 10 | How investing is getting riskier (Two Indicators) | 21:20 | Intermediate |
| 11 | The loan at the heart of a new foreclosure crisis | 32:05 | Intermediate |
| 12 | Cost-cutting, quiet guilt and the inflation generation | 27:42 | Intermediate |
| 13 | Trump drinks Venezuela’s milkshake | 28:43 | Intermediate |
| 14 | Love in the time of Palantir | 29:04 | Intermediate |
| 15 | Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5,” the true story behind the anthem (bonus) | 26:45 | Intermediate |
| 16 | Branded fruit: How produce got “Honeycrisp-ified" | 37:04 | Intermediate |
| 17 | The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) | 45:09 | Intermediate |
| 18 | Who decides what big box sells? Our GAME got us answers | 41:01 | Intermediate |
| 19 | Getting entrepreneurial in Korea (Summer School) | 43:59 | Intermediate |
| 20 | You bet your life insurance | 42:05 | Intermediate |
| 21 | Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School) | 43:35 | Intermediate |
| 22 | Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to? | 37:19 | Intermediate |
| 23 | Sand heists and property rights in the Caribbean (Summer School) | 44:29 | Intermediate |
| 24 | What makes a toy go viral | 29:11 | Intermediate |
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