Summary: What is money? Consideration of the question led Planet Money to Yap — a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where giant stone discs used to be used as a form of money.
Original air date: December 10, 2010
Length: 21:13
Main story content begins: 2:19
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/08/hear_how_the_gold_standard_fue.html
Summary: Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, blames that economic collapse of the Great Depression on the boneheaded policies of the leading central bankers. Ahamed says much of the problem stemmed with a return to the gold standard.
Original Air Date: August 5, 2009
Length: 18:43
Main story content begins: 3:16
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/18/133874462/the-friday-podcast-gold-standard-r-i-p
Summary: FDR removes the United States from the gold standard
Original air date: February 18, 2011
Length: 21:54
Main story content begins: 2:22
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/133781593/the-tuesday-podcast-the-gold-standard
Summary: Finance writer James Grant argues for a return to the gold standard.
Original air date: February 15, 2011
Length: 17:25
Main story content begins: 3:12
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/20/136403092/the-tuesday-podcast-we-sold-gold
Summary: The Planet Money team sells the gold they purchased in October 2010. (Part I of the story is in the podcast “Gold“)
Original air date: May 17, 2011
Length: 17:53
Main story content begins: 3:10
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/07/130597201/the-friday-podcast-gold
Summary: The Planet Money team buys gold (Part II of the story is in the podcast “We Sold Gold“)
Original air date: October 15, 2010
Length: 15:40
Main story content begins: 2:35
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