Jason Schreier

It was like peanut butter, turns out, is way more valuable than they had any idea.

And they learned so much from the prices of peanut butter getting driven up by this fake money eBay system.

And it's really fascinating.

And then the book's authors kind of extrapolate on this by being like, prices are not just kind of like a thing that you look at and you're like, okay, this is not just a piece of information for you, but also almost like a newspaper.

Like, you can learn so much from the price of something in that it signifies not just how much something costs for you at the store, but also...

the way that the crops for peanuts worked that year in whatever country that peanuts are grown, or the amount of oil that it took to ship those peanuts across the sea, and how prices just kind of changing can just teach you all this stuff about the world and how much you can learn from them.

Really fascinating book.

And then even more fascinating is that Planet Money, the podcast, did a...

I believe, four-episode series about how the book was made.

And so if you're interested in the nitty-gritty of book publishing, you can listen to this series by this guy, Alexei Horowitz-Gazi, this reporter of theirs, who goes behind the scenes.

And the first episode is about how a book is pitched and bid on by publishers.

And the second one is about how they decide where to print a book.

And they just dive deep into the creation

of this book that's that's very planet money of them that's very cool very cool compliment to it um turns out they reveal in this podcast series this book got an advance of more than one million dollars which is a lot of money for a book an incredibly popular podcast i bet it

Yeah, I mean, it's it's sold.

I believe it's already sold more than 100,000 copies.

So it's justified that advance and then some.

But yeah, but I've been I'm about halfway through the book and I really enjoying it.

It jumps around.

It's like a whole bunch of different kind of stories from all over the world.