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Planet Money (NPR) · Pulse

Planet Money is a long-running economics-and-applied-economics narrative podcast produced by National Public Radio (NPR), founded in September 2008 in response to the 2008 global financial crisis to provide substantive accessible economics coverage to general audiences. The podcast has accumulated approximately 1,500+ episodes through 2024 with bi-weekly-to-weekly publication and episode-lengths typically running 18-30 minutes covering substantial economics-applied-to-everyday-life narrative content.\n\nThe editorial approach combines substantial NPR-style narrative journalism, substantial expert-source-interview content, substantial behavioural-economics-and-applied-economics framing, plus the substantial post-2008 financial-crisis-and-recovery editorial focus. The associated Indicator from Planet Money daily 8-15 minute show provides shorter-form economics-news content. The substantial post-2010 Planet Money Network has produced spinoff projects including the substantial "Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt" investigative-journalism series (the 2013 multi-episode investigation tracing the global supply-chain of producing a single T-shirt from Mississippi cotton through Indonesian and Bangladeshi manufacturing through Colombian shipping), the substantial Planet Money-and-Marketplace-and-Bloomberg-and-Wall-Street-Journal economics-podcast network programming.\n\nThe substantial post-2020 Planet Money editorial-and-production team has included substantial host-and-producer rotation including Jacob Goldstein (host through 2021), Kenny Malone, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, Sarah Gonzalez, Robert Smith (long-time host), Mary Childs, Jeff Guo, plus the broader NPR-Planet-Money editorial team. The substantial post-2010 economics-podcast medium has expanded substantially with Planet Money remaining among the most-respected accessible-economics-narrative platforms globally with substantial younger-audience reach beyond the broader NPR audience.\n\nFor a globally-mobile professional with economics-and-applied-policy interests, Planet Money provides substantive accessible content with reliable NPR-style production-quality and editorial-rigor. The podcast is freely available across major podcast platforms (with NPR+ paid tier offering bonus content and ad-free listening). Indian-listener engagement is substantial particularly among economics-and-business-school students plus the substantial broader Indian English-speaking audience interested in accessible-economics content.