Planet Money Did China's Central Bank Take Your Job? March 19, 2010 • Is China manipulating its currency? What does it even mean to manipulate a currency, anyway, and how does a country do it? On today's Planet Money, Alex Blumberg and David Kestenbaum explain the whole Chinese currency thing. Did China's Central Bank Take Your Job? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/114578025/127417239" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Planet Money Here Comes China October 9, 2009 • On today's Planet Money, Ian Bremmer and Kishore Mahbubani look at the inexorable rise of China. Here Comes China Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/113670655/127424292" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Planet Money Revenge Of The Tariffs September 18, 2009 • On today's Planet Money, tires, chickens and messy trade relations. Revenge Of The Tariffs Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/112975508/127425586" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Planet Money Economics For Medieval Chinese Peasants September 4, 2009 • On today's Planet Money, historian Kenneth Pomeranz explains why China's lower Yagtze River Valley was perhaps the best place on the planet to be poor, right up until the start of the Industrial Revolution. Economics For Medieval Chinese Peasants Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/112568339/127426412" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Planet Money Can China Save America's Bacon? August 26, 2009 • On today's Planet Money, it may be true China's economy is recovering faster than the American one, but that doesn't make the communist nation big enough to save the world. Can China Save America's Bacon? Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/112271460/127426985" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation James Fallows Is Back, Baby! August 11, 2009 • After three years, James Fallows, a correspondent for The Atlantic is back on American soil.
Planet Money Hear: China's Big Stimulus November 10, 2008 • Simon Johnson tells us where all that money is going. Plus: Laura checks in from the streets of Beijing. Hear: China's Big Stimulus Listen · 15:47 15:47 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/96832061/136514046" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation The Coming Collision With China July 9, 2008 • Ted Koppel traveled throughout China to report for the Discovery special, "People's Republic of Capitalism" and part of what he found were cars. And lots of them. What will it mean for the U.S. when hundreds of millions of Chinese trade in their... Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/92371366/92374381" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation July 9th Show July 9, 2008 • In our first hour, why China may soon outbid America for energy. And in this week's political junkie, a look at possible running mates for Senator Obama and Senator John McCain. For our full second hour, journalist Leroy Sievers and Elizabeth Ed...
Blog Of The Nation Up the Yangtze June 18, 2008 • The changing community of the Yangtze River, told from the deck of a luxury cruise liner that travels Up The Yangtze. Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91635202/91644063" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation Reporting on the Rumble in China June 11, 2008 • Melissa Block, Robert Siegel and Andrea Hsu join us to discuss their Chengdu diaries. Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91384081/91384550" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation Seismic Activity in Sichuan May 12, 2008 • An earthquake devastates Sichuan. Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90374030/90374578" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation Extreme China Makeover April 22, 2008 • China's olympic makeover: "No Pushing! No swearing! No irony!" Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/89842704/89845716" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation Trouble In Tibet March 31, 2008 • With protests and violence in Tibet, we ask, "Who is the Dalai Lama?" Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/89240773/89241426" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Blog Of The Nation Hollywood on Darfur October 8, 2007 • In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Mia Farrow argues that China is underwriting genocide in Darfur, and must do more to stop the violence.