The Indicator from Planet Money
A bite-sized show about big ideas. From the people who make Planet Money, The Indicator helps you make sense of what's happening in today's economy. It's a quick hit of insight into money, work, and business. Monday through Friday, in 10 minutes or less.
Episodes (304)
A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy
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How Japan’s new prime minister is jolting markets
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What would it mean to actually refund the tariffs?
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Why the US chose not to have a passenger train system like Europe
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Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help
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Who's financing Meta's massive AI data center?
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Who’s buying all the beef?
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Pay transparency. The WhatsApp and Instagram decision. Our beef with screwworms.
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How to avoid scammers after a natural disaster
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Looking for love in the auto supply chain
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How to make switching jobs not terrifying
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Why you overpaid at that online auction
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50-year mortgages, falling real wages, and doing your rideshare due diligence
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Where the US got $20B to bail out Argentina
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Trump's backup options for tariffs
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Who is the World Cup for anymore?
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How the French pensions débâcle is a warning to us all
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Can air traffic controllers keep calm and carry on — without pay?
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This indicator hasn’t flashed this red since the dot-com bubble
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Who's propping up Russian oil?
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How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock
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When AI is your job interviewer
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A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices
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Are China and India BFFs now?
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Is Obamacare doomed without extended subsidies?
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How Marxism went from philosophy to cudgel
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The new language of AI tech workers
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Amazon's outage, anxious retirees, and LA brings the Heat, too
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Are concert tickets UNDER priced?
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No AI data centers in my backyard!
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Should we ditch quarterly earnings reports?
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Why are veterinarian bills getting so ruff on the wallet?
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Government shutdown fallout, price floors, and AI slop against the machine
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OpenAI's deals are looking a little frothy
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Inside the growing industry to defend schools from mass shootings
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Why do we live in unusually innovative times?
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Scam compounds, sewing patterns and stolen dimes
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How AI might mess with financial markets
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When cartels start to diversify
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What’s supercharging data breaches?
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Fighting AI with AI
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Vice Series: The evolving business of crime
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Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore
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How close is the US to crony capitalism?
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Why is everyone buying gold?
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We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers
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What media consolidation means for free speech
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Argentina's bailout, a new way to cool data centers, and a cold holiday hiring s...
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No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines
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Why are so many public schools closing?
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