Planet Money Shorts: Season 3 Congratulations! Like us, you too have made it all the way to Season 3 of Planet Money Shorts. Frankly, we didn't change a ton from the last two seasons. The economic facts are still weird, the crew is still made up of NPR goofballs. But this season we decided to really have some fun with it.
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Planet Money Shorts: Season 3
Grocery shopping the first few weeks of this crisis was insane (and frankly, it's still pretty nuts now). Shelves were empty. People were trying to buy up tons of stuff because no one knew what was going to happen; so demand was way up, but supply was the same. NPR hide caption
The coronavirus pandemic has turned the market for protective gear for health care workers into a free-for-all. NPR hide caption
Robert Smith playing the part of JP Morgan calls in the prominent bankers of the day to help solve the financial panic of 1907. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption
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In the early 1600s, there was only one stock and it didn't take long before a man named Isaac Le Maire tried to manipulate the price. NPR hide caption