Planet Money
Planet Money, from NPR, explains the economy by following one transaction until it becomes strange.
A t-shirt, a mortgage, a parking spot, a number in a federal release. Reporters including the long-running crew around the show make the abstraction concrete, then tell you the incentive hiding inside it.
The series is narrative economics: characters with jobs, not a chart read aloud. It has also built side experiments, from buying a toxic asset to making a t-shirt, that are stories in their own right.
The indicator-style updates and the longer investigations share a feed. Choose the one whose title names a thing, not a news cycle, if you want the classic form.
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