Planet Money Plus is a way to get access to regular episodes of our show, sponsor free and support NPR. Bonus episodes like this one that you're about to hear today are part of our Planet Money movie club. It's a Wonderful Life is a movie released 76 years ago with some economic themes that still really do ring true today.
Welcome to the Planet Money Movie Club, a regular series from Planet Money+ in which we watch an economics-related movie and discuss! On today's episode, Kenny Malone, Wailin Wong, and Willa Rubin talk about Frank Capra's 1946 classic 'It's A Wonderful Life.' They discuss CPI adjustments, how a copyright lapse helped make the film more popular, and what exactly a 'Building and Loan' is.
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