"Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy."
That is the bold promise in
Planet Money's tagline. And we believe the show
does live up to it. Over the last year, we've told stories about
breakdancing,
rum,
pagers,
buffets,
colors, and
heartbreak.
But then one host wondered: what if we
really held ourselves to that promise? What if we challenged ourselves to find economic meaning in the most esoteric and far-flung topics imaginable?
That's when we turned to you, our listeners. And boy did you deliver. You sent in ideas so obscure, so banananas, so guaranteed to stump and bamboozle that our host maybe started to regret her life choices...but she was resolved to give it a try.
This episode was hosted by Sally Helm and Keith Romer. It was produced by James Sneed. It was edited by Molly Messick and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Engineering by Kwesi Lee. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money
's executive producer.
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