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Planet Money
The length of the podcast ranges between 6-30 minutes. Planet Money uses abridged narratives to tackle complex topics like American health care or insider trading, to make economic journalism approachable to audiences that are interested in learning more about popular economic issues without an academic background in economics.The narrative changes with each episode and typically consist of interview-style dialogue. The interviewees or guest range from academic experts, business professionals or general members of the North American public. Providing listeners with primary source material, the podcast's host contributes contextual framing and commentary. The intimate stories are used as a leading thread, and use commonplace language with entertaining plots to describe abstract or complex economic and political issues. This method of entertainment translates political or economic topics, that were historically dependent on academic language and higher education, to stories that engage the general public. This technique allows for larger and/or younger audiences, while continuing to maintain contact with original markets by drawing from popular topics within North American culture.

On February 28th 2018 the first episode of the Planet Money Shorts series was released. Planet Money Shorts consists of six episodes, each of which are less than five minutes. Planet money is published by NPR and can be streamed or downloaded off of their webpage as an audio file or watched with video on Youtube.