They say true love is hard to find. Whoever says that isn't an economist. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.... Read more

The story of the day the Federal Reserve got its independence and the fight — an actual physical fight — to keep it. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.... Read more

We have found the perfect superhero. Now we just have to make him our own. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.... Read more

The government used to be afraid to borrow too much money. Today, it borrows hand over fist. And it's ... fine? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.... Read more

Marvel was not interested in selling us Doorman. But there is another way to jumpstart our superhero empire.| Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.... Read more

The real money is in the ink. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.... Read more

Marvel has 7,000 characters, many of them forgotten. We want to buy one from their vault and launch our own little Planet Money franchise. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter... Read more

Irrational decisions. Things we can't let go. Friend of the show Sam Sanders comes by to talk obsessions. We turn to economics for advice, clarity and comfort. | Subscribe to... Read more