In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous ... From our Planet Money podcast, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi and Nic Neves bring us a parable of the modern attention economy.

HOROWITZ-GHAZI: All that attention started to bring strange new opportunities. Mark and Peanut started making sponsored content for nut companies. The celebrity shoutout website Cameo invited them ...