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Planet Money is an economics podcast hosted by NPR. It began publishing during the 2008 economic crisis

Catch it online here on the NPR website.

Tropes used in Planet Money include:

419 Scam: Has a whole episode dedicated to Nigerian Prince email scams.
Command and Conquer Economy: Played with in Episode 404: Even with total control over the worlds economy in a model simulation, where the hosts manually alter regional economic factors to see the result, they aren’t able to correct unemployment to a desired level within four years. Amusingly in real life, the unemployment did drop below their target of 5% in 2016.
Everything's Better with Dinosaurs: Becky with the good Yield, a junk bond for company assisting with offshore fossil fuels, is imagined as a pink dinosaur.
No Budget: A lack of funding leads the hosts to buy one of the cheapest and riskiest junk bonds they could find, rather than a less risky asset.
Public Domain Character: Micro-Face is selected as their comic book character in part due to being in the public domain, after failing to buy the rights to Door Man from Marvel Comics.

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 * [[419 Scam]]: Has a [https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/06/22/155581764/those-nigerian-email-scams-are-ridiculous-for-a-reason whole episode] dedicated to Nigerian Prince email scams.
-* [[Command and Conquer Economy]: Played with in Episode 404: Even with total control over the worlds economy in a model simulation, where the hosts manually alter regional economic factors to see the result, they aren’t able to correct unemployment to a desired level within four years. Amusingly in real life, the unemployment did drop below their target of 5% in 2016.
+* [[Command and Conquer Economy]]: Played with in Episode 404: Even with total control over the worlds economy in a model simulation, where the hosts manually alter regional economic factors to see the result, they aren’t able to correct unemployment to a desired level within four years. Amusingly in real life, the unemployment did drop below their target of 5% in 2016.
+* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Becky with the good Yield, a junk bond for company assisting with offshore fossil fuels, is imagined as a pink dinosaur.
+* [[No Budget]]: A lack of funding leads the hosts to buy one of the cheapest and riskiest junk bonds they could find, rather than a less risky asset.
 * [[Public Domain Character]]: Micro-Face is selected as their comic book character in part due to being in the public domain, after failing to buy the rights to ''Door Man'' from [[Marvel Comics]].
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