Big announcement, Planet Money is writing a book. It's been in production for over a year,

and today, finally, it's available for pre-order at planetmoneybook.com. It's called Planet Money,

a guide to the economic forces that shape your life. It has brand new stories, updates on some

favorites, and beautiful illustrations.

Almost everybody on the team helped make it. We think it's like the best of planet money

turned into something you can hold or give to a friend. Each section is a little collection

of stories that help you use economics to make life a little richer,

from work and career to dating and family, to retirement and food.

And of course, we'll be doing some episodes about the behind-the-scenes things we learned,

like this.

Pre-ordering a book helps the author so much more than waiting to buy it, because this sends a signal to the booksellers to stock up, to promote it, put it on that front table when it publishes.

So, help us get those strong pre-order sales.

By pre-ordering, you'll get a free gift and a month of Planet Money Plus

if you aren't already a subscriber. Go to planetmoneybook.com. That's planetmoneybook.com. Thank you. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Whalen Wong.

I'm Darian Woods. And I'm Adrienne Ma. And we're all here to welcome to our final installment of our week-long vice series, where we've been exploring the evolving

business of crime. And today, we are talking about our favorite pieces of true crime content

with a little econ twist. Yeah, true crime is a super hot industry. A recent study found 84% of the

U.S. population, ages 13 and up, consume some form of true crime content.

Obviously, we know it's big in podcasts. We've got cereal, my favorite murder, criminal.

So we're going to have a freewheeling discussion going through each of our favorite pieces of true crime content.

We'll bring you an economic lesson from it.

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