Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jac...

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon Johnson, says that influence has been there since the birth of economics. Call it political economy. Call it government and bu ... Show More

If we think about the economic effects of President Donald Trumps big taxing and spending and domestic policy bill, we can roughly sum it up in one line. It goes something like this: We will make many big tax cuts permanent and pay for those tax cuts by cutting Medicaid and a few ... Show More

There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions to the national debt. They claim that all the new spending will be worth it in the end because we will supercharge economic growth. This fanta ... Show More

Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now. (This episod ... Show More

This episode contains explicit language.In the 1990s, the landscape of American music was changed forever by two titans of hip hop: Death Row and Bad Boy. The rivalry between these iconic rap labels would go on to become as legendary as it was notorious. But in these early days? ... Show More

Jay Jenkins, known by his stage name Jeezy (or Young Jeezy), is an American rapper who signed to Def Jam Records in 2004 and has never shied away from talking about his life in his music. But for this Grammy-nominated, BET Award-winning, platinum-selling hip-hop artist, this next ... Show More

Hip-hop turns 50 years old. But what’s the business behind the music that pioneered rap into the mainstream media? Mark Dent and Drea Hudson talk to Dan Runcie, founder of Trapital, a media brand covering the economics of hip-hop to discuss the cultural shifts that transformed hi ... Show More

Sean “Diddy” Combs is a music producer and rapper, but he is a businessman first. And as every businessman knows, you gotta pay the cost to be the boss. You’ve gotta bet big to win big. You have to have drive, determination, and swag. Three things that Diddy possesses and which h ... Show More

Mark Dent and Drea Hudson talk to Dan Runcie, founder of Trapital, a media brand covering the economics of hip-hop. From the genre’s golden era to its future (hello, AI), they uncover the moves, trends, and cultural shifts that transformed hip-hop into a billion-dollar global com ... Show More