setting aside the Sherlock Holmes cosplay, is that Jared Leto?!

Tragically, no!

Photo of Wailin reading the Planet Money Book while sipping from a big NPR-branded mug that says Public Radio Nerd. She is standing in front of a bookcase.

HOORAY, the Planet Money book is out today! We are so excited to get this book into all of your hands and we hope you enjoy it. It would be great to see you at one of our live shows too, especially if you are in Chicago! That's where I'll be on April 23! Exclamation points!

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Last night I dreamt that Trump issued an EO saying that “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere” would officially start at 3:30 pm CT. What a demented thing for the president to say hahahaha! Anyway Happy Easter 🥴

It was 75K! But going down to 65K soon so act now on this limited time offer (this was part of the sales pitch)

No tote bag or mug! Otherwise I might have been persuaded!

Was on an American Airlines flight where the pilot had to do a full-on, minutes-long hard sell for the AA credit card like it was pledge drive season. It all felt mildly embarrassing

I was at the library the other day, and an older gentleman was at one of the computers carefully perusing an online grocery store circular (super enlarged on the screen) and I was like I LOVE THE LIBRARY

Aw thanks! Yeah we are pivoting to video (not the first time I have done this in my longass journalism career 😅)

Did you know that @marychilds.bsky.social is an entomologist?! You should watch this!

It's one banana, Michael! What could it cost? $10? (Yes, it does cost $10 for a banana now)

Collisions An <em>Economist</em> Best Book of 2025<br /><br />From the acclaimed biographer of Buckminster Fuller, a riveting biography of the Nobel Prize&#8211;winning physicist who became the greatest scientif...

This is not Bohr, but my husband wrote a biography of the physicist Luis W. Alvarez, who also worked on the Manhattan Project (and much more!): wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I must confess I clicked on this story because I thought the founder's name was David Protein

The towelettes are SO aggravating! I went rogue and grabbed three today, probably sending their profit margins into disarray 🤪 This is the company that owns my studio—I'm in IL and that's one of the 14 states where it bought up CP franchises: www.spartanfitnessholdings.com

My Pilates studio got acquired by a private equity firm that bought a bunch of Club Pilates franchises. Now, instead of wiping down our equipment with a washcloth and spray bottle of disinfectant, we get a dinky disposable moist towelette. And the music they stream during class now comes with ads 🙄

Thank you so much!!! 😊

Short sellers steal the show in HBO's 'Industry' (Planet Money+) : Planet Money In the HBO drama "Industry," finance is the battlefield. In its latest season, we're introduced to a high-flying British fintech that wants to be a "bank killer." But a new hedge fund is out to prove ...

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lol well if it turns out that the EXCELLENT breakfast is now the same quality as what the VERY GOOD breakfast was before, and the VERY GOOD breakfast is actually a CRUMMY BREAKFAST, that's a skimpflation story!

What if a very good breakfast is included, but an EXCELLENT breakfast requires an upcharge

panic buying those Bonilla a la Vista potato chips before the U.S. cuts off all trade with Spain (I hear they're really good!)

@wailinwong.bsky.social @planetmoney.bsky.social @npr.org featured @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social's & my estimate of DHS causing $106 million in lost wages for MSP metro workers as her Indicator of the week.

Thanks for doing such a great job communicating the results.
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Between this news and RFK Jr telling us we should be eating more liver, it's a real banner day for the Hannibal Lecter Diet

I still have dreams about not being able to open the combination lock on my middle school gym locker 😩

DHS' Tricia McLaughlin told NPR's Indicator last week "new ICE recruits receive 56 days of training and 28 days of on-the-job training. No training was removed." Then she said they dropped Spanish language proficiency in the same statement and contradicted Lyons' own testimony too. All baloney.

Incredible! 🥇

If pressed, I think I would skate to Tom Wilkinson's monologue from Michael Clayton

Now we've got MORE talking—dialogue from Ghost the musical during this Georgian skater's routine! Awkward

Lara Naki Gutmann is skating to a medley that includes Hans Zimmer's score for Inception. I hope at the end of her free skate she starts spinning and doesn't stop

What is the most uptempo song that would be great for a figure skating routine WITHOUT encouraging spectators to clap on beats one and three, or clapping at all? This is what I would be obsessed with if I were a figure skater