Riding with the repo man (update)
Planet Money
- Published
- February 4, 2026
- Duration
- 29:24
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jun 7, 2026
Discusses Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just ok…
Summary
Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated 3 million cars will have been repossessed in 2025. That would be on par with how bad it got during the Great Recession. What’s going on? And why now? Today on…
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Planet Money book tour ticket info and dates here. A record number of Americans with poor or just okay credit are behind on their car payments. And once last year’s numbers are tallied, an estimated 3 million cars will have been repossessed in 2025. That would be on par with how bad it got during the Great Recession. What’s going on? And why now? Today on the show, we focus on the micro part of the story to answer the macro question. First, we hear a favorite story of ours from 2019. We follow t