Amanda Aronczyk

Japan once served sushi in the shape of Carlos Ghosn’s face. Then Japanese authorities arrested the celebrity CEO who remade Nissan. We bring you first hand accounts of his spectacular rise, sudden fall and dramatic escape. | This episode is a collaboration with HBR IdeaCast.

Two groups of people who would never meet in real life collide in a world of wizards and dragons. They battle it out in a low-tech video game, and it shakes the lives of a lot of real people living in a collapsing economy. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

With the constant stream of data about COVID-19, it can be hard to make sense of all the numbers. We look at the base rate fallacy, and how some people are making this mistake when assessing risk.

We asked for your dispatches from the labor market, and boy did we hear back. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Years ago advertising was dominated by cars and beer. Today on the show, how a simple slogan and a talking gecko helped the insurance industry become one of the most dominant forces in advertising. Now, we’re all living with the consequences. | Fill out our listener survey here

There is a new name on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — Ruja Ignatova, known as the CryptoQueen. It’s a story of international fraud at a scale rarely seen.

When it comes to international trade and finance, everyone pretty much speaks one language: the U.S. dollar. So when the Federal Reserve hikes interest rates and the dollar suddenly gets strong, it can cause huge headaches all over the world.Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.np…

Jelle Peterse’s company ships cheese all over the world, but they don’t always get their cheese racks back. In this episode, we try to fix a supply chain problem. Gouda grief!Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.

The Nobel-prize winning economist Simon Kuznets once analyzed the world’s economies this way — he said there are four kinds of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan... and Argentina.<br/><br/>If you want to understand what happens when inflation really goes off the rails, go to Argentina. Annual inflation there, over the past year, was 124 percent. Argentina’s currency, the peso, is collapsing, its poverty rate is above 40 percent, and the country may be on the verge of electing a far righ…

Union membership in the U.S. has been declining for decades. But, in 2022, <em>support </em>for unions among Americans was the <a href=“https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%2D%2D%20Seventy%2Done,on%20this%20measure%20since%201965”>highest</a> it’s been in decades. This dissonance is due, in part, to the difficulties of one important phase in the life cycle of a union: setting up a union in the first place. One place whe…