Planet Money podcast
Shares rank 22 of 42 podcasts by recommenders
Free NPR podcast explaining economics through short episodes on specific news and history topics. Two critics find it narrow and say quality has slipped.
Free NPR podcast explaining economics through short episodes on specific news and history topics. Two critics find it narrow and say quality has slipped.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong episodes on specific topics
“There was a good Planet Money episode which went into what was behind all of this.”
Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs” “excellent Planet Money episode on how trading onion futures got banned in the 50s”
Comment from 19 Sep 2026 in “San Francisco Onion Futures Company” “There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast a few weeks back”
Comment from 4 Jul 2026 in “As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers” - Comment from 26 Aug 2026 in “Who Makes Your Supplements?”
Clear economics explainers
“Pretty nice wide Econ 101 overview of how the economy works from a US point of view.”
Comment from 30 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: What are you reading?” “There was a good Planet Money episode which went into what was behind all of this.”
Comment from 8 Feb 2026 in “FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs” “this is a good economics podcast in general”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance”
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The four most recommended other podcasts, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Dwarkesh Podcast | 29 | 8 | 78% | 9 | — | Approved |
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| Acquired podcast | 25 | 0 | 100% | 11 | — | Approved |
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| Planet Money podcastThis page | 7 | 2 | 78% | 7 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“this is a good economics podcast in general”
“Pretty nice wide Econ 101 overview of how the economy works from a US point of view.”
“excellent Planet Money episode on how trading onion futures got banned in the 50s”
“Planet Money has a good episode on this”
“There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast a few weeks back”
“Planet Money has indeed kept rolling downhill.”
“There was a good Planet Money episode which went into what was behind all of this.”
“Feels a little like getting all your news through Planet Money. Sure you’ll know what’s going on but through a single lens.”
“I learned a lot about it.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.