The Indicator from Planet Money
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Description
A little show about big ideas. From the people who make Planet Money, The Indicator helps you make sense of what's happening today. It's a quick hit of insight into work, business, the economy, and everything else. Listen weekday afternoons.
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CleanWhat Does "National Emergency" Actually Mean? | President Trump asked Congress for funds to build an extension of the wall on the border with Mexico. Congress refused, so Trump declared a national emergency. But what does that mean? | 2/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYour Questions, Answered ❤️ | Today we answer listener questions about age discrimination; how work hours are counted; and whether the economy is running out of people to take jobs. | 2/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Strike That Changed U.S. Labor | The 1937 union agreement between GM and the United Auto Workers union ushered in a period of strength for organized labor. Today, labor is nowhere near as powerful as it used to be. What happened? | 2/13/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFortnite Vs. Backpack Kid: Dance Battle Royale | An Instagram celebrity and a video game company are battling over who gets to own a dance move once it goes viral. | 2/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Violence Limits Economic Activity | Economist Lisa Cook examined how race riots, lynchings, and segregation at the turn of the 20th century reduced the number of patents filed by African-Americans. | 2/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSmall Town Boom | Small towns in rural areas across America are seeing a regeneration to advance technology, jobs and economic prospects. | 2/8/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Disease Detectives | The dedicated officers of the epidemic intelligence service are foot soldiers in a relentless battle against infectious disease. | 2/7/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIndia's Poverty Paradox | India's government has proposed a plan to pay some of the country's poorest farmers a guaranteed income. What would this mean for the country's economy? | 2/6/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Fed's Sweet Spot For Interest Rates | Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says inflation isn't a problem right now, and that the short term interest rate, at 2.5 percent, is right where it should be. | 2/5/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCold-o-nomics | Parts of America are in the grip of a cold snap. Others are being drenched by rain. How do we measure the cost of extreme weather conditions? We called a scientist to find out. It turns out storms are getting more and more expensive. | 2/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Jobs Friday 5 | Jobs: Is the economy creating enough of them? Are they paying more than they used to? Do people have the jobs they want? All this and more. | 2/1/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLights Out For PG&E? | How the once fairly-stable business of public utilities is changing. | 1/31/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow To Price A Government Shutdown | The Congressional Budget Office estimated the economic impact of the longest shutdown in history. | 1/30/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Bond Is Born | How the invention of the government bond saved a bunch of mid-level politicians from certain death and became one of the most important pieces of financial technology the world has ever seen. | 1/29/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGlobalization At Davos: What Happened? | The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is supposedly an unabashed celebration of globalization. Not this year. | 1/28/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe End Of The Shutdown? | The shutdown is over... for now. Today on the Indicator, we talk to one of the 800,000 formerly-furloughed federal employees about his experience of the shutdown. | 1/25/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHAIL To College Access | An economics experiment that streamlines the application and financial aid process for low-income students. | 1/24/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen Tariffs Hit Home | How the trade war with China is playing out on one peanut farm in Georgia. | 1/23/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShooting Bambi To Save Mother Nature | The number of hunters in the U.S. is falling, which is bad news for wildlife conservation. | 1/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Keeps Economists Up At Night? And Other Stuff | We armed The Indicator's producers with your questions, and they unleashed them on a roomful of economists at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. | 1/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanR.I.P. Jack Bogle, Democratizer Of Investing | John Clifton "Jack" Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Today we look back at his life and career. | 1/17/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Extremely Cautious Case For Extremely Mild Optimism | Interest rates are higher, global growth is slowing, and the government is at an impasse. But there are also reasons for near-term optimism about the U.S. economy. | 1/16/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWorking Women: Why The U.S. Is Behind | When it came to the female labor force participation rate, America used to lead the world. But we've fallen behind. Today on the show: what happened? | 1/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean10,000 Economists Walk Into A Bar | Which economic indicators do we pay too much attention to? Not enough? It's Overrated/Underrated: Economic Indicator edition | 1/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShutdown Economics | The U.S. partial government shutdown is on track to be the longest in history. Whatever its political consequences, the economic costs to the private sector will increase the longer it lasts. | 1/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanU.S.-China Trade: Where Are We Now? | Today on The Indicator: an update on the trade spat between China and the U.S. | 1/10/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAre We Ready For A Recession? | Some signals on the economic dashboard are warning we could be heading for a downturn within a couple of years. Are we ready to fight off a recession? | 1/9/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDon't Fear The Fear Index | 2018 was one of the most volatile stock market years on record. And the market continues volatile today. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. | 1/8/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJobs, Inflation And The Phillips Curve | The Fed chair and his two predecessors speak at a big conference about Friday's stellar jobs report, and why, despite what the Phillips Curve might predict, they're not too worried about inflation | 1/7/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEconomists On Screen, Episode 4: Stockholm | The miniseries Stockholm tells the story of a group of friends, one of whom is a frontrunner for the Nobel Prize in economics. But there's a problem: he's dead. | 1/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEconomists On Screen, Episode 3: Aaron Sorkin | Shows developed by Aaron Sorkin included a lot of economics. We look at free trade in The West Wing, and Glass-Steagall in The Newsroom. | 1/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEconomists On Screen, Episode 2: Jack Ryan, CIA Economist | In Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, the lead character is an economist in the CIA, tracking down terrorists by following their money. | 1/2/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEconomists On Screen, Episode 1: Crazy Rich Asians | Explaining the game theory in the plot of the movie Crazy Rich Asians. | 12/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIndicators Of The Year: #MeToo | The #MeToo movement transformed the experience of women in the workplace. The strong job market helped some women feel secure enough to come forward... but for others, it still doesn't feel safe to speak up. | 12/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIndicators Of The Year: Opioids | The opioid problem has reached into all parts of American life, including the workplace. But the workplace could be key in addressing the problem. | 12/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIndicators Of The Year: Housing | 2018 was a rough year for the housing market. We take a look at what happened. | 12/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIndicators Of The Year: Immigration | Applications for H-1B work visas fell 16 percent in 2018 from 2017. Does that mean the U.S. could lose its edge in attracting global talent? | 12/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFriends Of The Indicator, Pt 2 | Our pals Josh Barro of New York Magazine and Jennifer Doleac from Texas A&M tell us what they're keeping an eye on in 2019. | 12/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFriends Of The Indicator, Pt 1 | What are the best indicators for 2019? Some of our best friends tell us what they'll be watching. | 12/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYou've Got Mail! | Depression severity, Australia's housing market and the minimum wage. You asked: here are some answers. | 12/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Crypto Crash | Cryptocurrency had a rough 2018. The big cryptos lost about 80% of their value. So what happened? Is crypto poised for a comeback or are we talking tulips? | 12/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLowlights Of The Year | We commemorate some of the darkest and funniest business and economic blackspots of the year. | 12/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEconomics Of A Border Wall | President Donald Trump has made building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico one of his signature issues. Today, the Indicator looks at the economics of a border wall. | 12/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Are There So Many Mattress Stores? | There are so many mattress stores in the America, and they always seem to be empty. So how can they afford the real estate? And how do they stay in business? | 12/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEconomic Insecurity | The U.S. economy looks in fine shape — for now — but even a lot of Americans with jobs still struggle financially. Here are three Indicators to monitor economic insecurity in the U.S. | 12/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCiti Bike's Better Angels | How one bike-sharing company used behavioral economics to solve one of its most vexing problems. | 12/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnto The Brexit | UK Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to exit the European Union has hit a wall. What happens now? | 12/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMore Jobs, Less Pay | In honor of jobs day, we look at the jobs that used to be high-paying, that are now low-paying. What happened to these jobs? And what can it tell us about the U.S. economy? | 12/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Fed's Mistake? | For years after the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve kept short term interest rates near zero percent. It began raising rates in 2015 — but did it jump the gun. | 12/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanParis Is Burning | What the yellow vest protests in Paris tell us about economic reform in France and the parallels with politics in the U.S. | 12/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBehind The Curve | When the yield curve inverts, people worry that it's a sign we're headed for recession. But its predictive reliability also depends on the way it inverts. | 12/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrade War And Peace | China and the U.S. have been locked in a trade war for most of 2018, but peace may be on the horizon.... at least a partial peace. | 12/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Voyages Of The Starship Indicator | NASA has been taking a more hands-off approach to extra-planetary exploration. What will that mean for the economics of space? | 11/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSpace Economics | From moon missions and space shuttles to public-private partnerships. | 11/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDo Sanctions Work? | Sanctions have become an increasingly common foreign policy tool for the U.S. How effective are they? | 11/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCollege Side Hustle | Colleges and universities are finding creative ways to make money. | 11/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonds, Rating Agencies And Chocolate | Marilyn Cohen talks bonds, rating agencies and the yield curve, in overrated, underrated. | 11/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSee Stocks Run | The stock market has been on a wild ride lately. Today, the Indicator looks at what's going on and whether we should worry for the economy. | 11/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Price Of Your Turkey Dinner | We talk turkey with the American Farm Bureau about changes in the price of Thanksgiving Dinner. | 11/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Ins & Outs Of The Minimum Wage | The minimum wage is a contentious issue. Some claim it's a job killer. But what does the research show? | 11/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRecession Indicators, Pt 2 | Wondering whether we're poised to tip into a recession? The jobs market may point the way. | 11/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRecession Indicators, Pt 1 | Are we heading into a recession? The Conference Board's Leading Indicator has ten ways to tell. | 11/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Lucky Country | Australia hasn't had a recession in 27 years. Good policy? Or just good luck? | 11/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOil Up, Oil Down | The decline in the oil price since the end of October has been stunning in its depth and speed, and follows more than a year of climbing. What changed? | 11/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Problem With The Pink Tax | Women pay more than men for many consumer products. Today on the show: Why some economists still think that's a good thing. | 11/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRecession Suppression Needs Policy Aggression | The next global economic downturn could be even harder to reverse than the last one. | 11/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 401(k) Turns 40 | The 401(k) retirement plan turned 40 this week! Today on the show, we chronicle the rise of the 401(k), the fall of the pension, and talk to the man who started it all. | 11/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAll Aboard The Bankmobile! | How one bank gave a whole new meaning to the term "mobile banking" | 11/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYour Lifetime Value Score | You may not know it, but companies are silently scoring you... and using that score to figure out how to treat you. | 11/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStacey And Cardiff Answer To The People | We answer questions from our listeners and issue a couple of mea culpas. | 11/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOde On A Grecian Tax | Taxes get a bad reputation, but they were central to the formation of representative government, says financial historian William N. Goetzmann. | 11/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Companies Cope (With A Tight Labor Market) | Wage growth has (finally) been accelerating, but what else are companies doing to bid for workers? | 11/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Ecuador Uses The Dollar? | One of our youngest listeners asked us why Ecuador changed its currency to U.S. dollars, so we found out! | 11/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanParanormal Profits | Horror movies are good business. Scary good. They are more likely to be profitable than any other kind of movie. Today on the show, we look at why. | 10/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Best Day For Payday | Weekly, biweekly, or every month — which payday makes the most sense? | 10/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJudgement Bonds | Municipalities are increasingly going to the bond market to pay their court settlement costs. | 10/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLotteries And Happiness | We assume that winning the lottery will make us happier. In some ways it does, in others — not so much. | 10/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDifficulty With The Deficit | The deficit normally shrinks when the economy is strengthening, but not now. | 10/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Rise of the Machines | In just six years, robots could achieve parity with humans in the workplace, with machines working the same number of hours as people. | 10/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOf Wages And Warehouses | Warehouse jobs are growing even faster than the rest of the booming labor market. Are they good jobs? | 10/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanShort Shrift For Short Sellers | Short sellers get a bad rap. Sometimes with good reason. But overall, they're an inevitable and useful part of a healthy financial system. | 10/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTears For Sears | A storied American retailer has filed for bankruptcy. | 10/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBeating Bollywood | Amazon and Netflix are trying to take on India. But, so far a Hollywood ending, south-Asian style, has eluded them. | 10/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGross Dank Product | Just because marijuana is now legal in Canada doesn't mean the market for it is easily quantifiable. | 10/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Snapshot Of Poverty In America | The Supplemental Poverty Report provides a more accurate and nuanced picture of poverty in America. | 10/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOverrated/Underrated: Nobel Prizes, Conversations, And Our Descendants | Tyler Cowen rates Nobel prizes, blogs, and the importance of weirdness in conversation | 10/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Economics of Apologies | Turns out nothing says 'I'm sorry' like cold, hard cash | 10/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChina's Brave New World | China is piloting a so-called social credit system, which allots every citizen a certain number of points. If you do the "right thing" you can extra points. If you do the wrong thing, you can lose points and life can get very difficult. | 10/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLife On China's Blacklist | In China, if you don't pay back your loans, you could end up on a blacklist. When you're on it, you can't get a credit card or a plane ticket. Today on the show, we talk with someone on the blacklist. | 10/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChina's Social Credit System | China has a problem: it's economy grew fast and that led to a trust problem. If someone doesn't pay back a loan, there's no real enforcement. But the solution might cause problems of its own. | 10/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Iron Lotus | The reverse stock split is the Iron Lotus of the financial world. It looks complicated and absurd, and it often doesn't end well. | 10/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWho's Hiring? | Today on the Indicator: stolen jobs-day trends ... from our clever jobs-day friends! | 10/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Comes Afta NAFTA | The US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement keeps in place the basic NAFTA framework, with a few twists. | 10/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Happened To GE? | General Electric used to be a household name — a pillar of the U.S. economy. Now, it's fighting to survive. | 10/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanZeitgeist-y Bubbles | How financial bubbles reflect the particular psychology of the times in which they inflate. | 10/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanD.C.'s Billion-Dollar Lawsuit | Washington, D.C. is being sued for a billion dollars... for gentrification. | 10/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Case Of The Pricey Frito | Corn prices are falling, but the price of Fritos in the White House press corps break room is up by 20%. What's going on? Team Indicator is on the case! | 9/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBaby Got Buybacks | Companies are buying back stock from shareholders more than ever. Not everyone thinks that's a good thing. | 9/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTariffs And Tourists And Trade Wars, Oh My! | The U.S. trade war with China escalated this week. The Trump administration might be underestimating how many options the Chinese government has for responding to American tariffs. | 9/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLess Risky Business | The psychological scars wrought by the 2008 financial crisis are taking a long time to heal. We're a lot more cautious, which has serious implications for the economy. | 9/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSaudi Arabia & The Paradox of Plenty | This week in history: Saudi Arabian oil and the creation of Aramco. | 9/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRent! | Rents in America are leveling off. At last! | 9/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Young And The Restless | Why boom and bust is part and parcel of the emerging economic experience. | 9/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Psychological Effects Of The Financial Crisis, Lingering | We hear a lot about the effects of the financial crisis on the economy and markets, but what about the lasting effects it had on our psyches? | 9/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWork Work Work | The availability of work — the availability of jobs for people who want a job and even for people who didn't know they want a job — continues expanding. | 9/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDown Clown | Clowns and clowning have been suffering from a chronic branding crisis for decades. Can they fix it? | 9/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHandle With Care | In the midst of a deepening economic crisis, a reporter's dilemma. | 9/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Price Of Rice In Japan | Demand for Japanese-grown rice is falling. But prices are still going up. | 9/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFree Tuition; False Economy? | Why free tuition may make for better politics than economics. | 9/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Liars Of Romance | People lie when they're looking for a mate online. Today on the Indicator: the lies we tell online, and how often we tell them. | 9/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCall The Midwife Back | For more than three decades, it was illegal in Alabama to have your baby delivered by a midwife. But last year the state finally legalized midwifery and now it could lead to serious cost savings. | 9/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanYour Jobs Questions, Answered | Martha Gimbel of the Hiring Lab at Indeed answers listener questions about the job market. | 9/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Aren't We More Productive? | Computing and the internet should make us more productive. Or should they?! It's an Indicator mystery. | 9/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanNAFTA-splainer | Cardiff gets the lowdown on NAFTA from Soumaya Keynes of The Economist | 9/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMaking The Case For Removing Tariffs | The next round of trade barriers with China could include a 25 percent levy on Chinese antiquities. One dealer went to Washington to tell Congress why that tariff could hurt our allies and ourselves. | 9/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Original Bailout | In 1907, America's financial system ran into trouble. Trust in financial institutions evaporated, and contagion swept through the economy. Then John Pierpont Morgan stepped in. | 8/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAging Up | Most people think the best time to start a business is when you're young, but is it? | 8/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMind the Pay Gap | Why do men still make 20 percent more than women in the U.S.? | 8/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHurricane Joseph & The Calculator That Time Forgot | Creative destruction is a fact of economic life that few products can resist. Graphing calculators are a notable exception. | 8/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Measure Of A Tragedy | The Venezuelan economy has collapsed. Years of economic mismanagement and a deepening political crisis have led to a recession. Yet there's one indicator that can capture this economic catastrophe. | 8/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Art of War. It's Not For Everyone | "The Art of War" by Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of corporate America's favorite books. But John McWhorter, a linguistics professor at Columbia, isn't convinced about its utility. | 8/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBeyond GDP | GDP has been a great indicator, but it may no longer be enough. | 8/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Underrated Economists | Today's summer economics read is "What Would the Great Economists Do?" by Linda Yueh, who is a great economist herself. | 8/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy People Can't Get Work Done At Work | Today's summer book recommendation offers a different approach to the modern workplace. | 8/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Indicator Goes To The Beach With Tim Harford | In honor of the last stretch of summer, The Indicator has selected some economic beach reads! Books that will teach you something about economics and also pair well with a pina colada. | 8/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDonald Trump's Economic Strategy... Maybe? | Wall Street Journal Chief Economics Commentator Greg Ip explains President Donald Trump's emerging economic strategy. | 8/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWe Buy A Cryptokitty! | Today on The Indicator: Cardiff and Stacey go deep into the world of the blockchain... to buy a cartoon cat. | 8/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCryptokitties: The Download On Digital Cats | How a single cartoon cat can cost $140K. | 8/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFrom Prison To The Workforce | People who've been to prison find it hard to get work once they're free. One solution to the problem may be a simple certificate. | 8/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMessy Desks, Light Bulbs & Dune | Tim Harford is the author of 'Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy." We play overrated/underrated, and asked him about inventions, as well as messy desks. | 8/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPrivacy Please: Why Public Companies Go Private (Or Vice Versa) | Today on the Indicator: why companies decide to be publicly-traded or privately-owned. It's all about control. And money. | 8/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe OG Yield Curve Whisperer | A conversation with Campbell Harvey, whose 1986 thesis first explained how the yield curve could predict the direction of the economy. | 8/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrickle-down Economics: Pricing H2O | What's the best way to price water in a drought, to ensure people get what they need without breaking the bank? | 8/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSanctions, Iran, And The Battle Over SWIFT | Today on the Indicator: How a small Belgian company wields enormous influence in global finance and diplomacy. | 8/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTariffs, Now With Extra Cheese | The U.S. has been renegotiating trade deals and putting tariffs on different goods. Meanwhile, other countries are re-negotiating their trade agreements and some deals are leaving U.S. producers out. | 8/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBeating The Clock On Jobs (Summer) Friday | Five indicators in five minutes — Let's gooooooooo! | 8/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGrey Poupon And The Cultural Divide | Income inequality in the U.S. has been climbing for a while. Has it also been accompanied by a widening cultural gap between rich and poor? | 8/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat A Tariff Looks Like | What happens when a new tariff gets put in place? To really see the action, you have to go to Newark, New Jersey. | 8/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat's In Your Paycheck? | The pace of wage growth is one of the best indicators of economic health. But it can be measured with different methods. Each method tells a slightly different story about how the economy is doing. | 7/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPutin Vs. Russia's Economy | Russia has had a huge presence in the news lately. But its economy... not so huge. It's smaller than the economy of Texas. Today on the show, we look at what's been holding it back. | 7/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGDP, OMG! | The GDP got all sorts of attention today. The U.S. economy grew at a stellar rate of 4.1% in the second quarter. But what does that mean? And will it continue? | 7/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen Oracles Err | Warren Buffett, Mark Twain, and John Maynard Keynes all made enormous investment mistakes at some point in their lives. On today's show, those stories — and the lessons we can all take from them. | 7/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Diamond-Water Paradox | The Diamond-Water Paradox poses the question: If we need water to survive and we don't need diamonds, why are diamonds expensive and water cheap? | 7/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump Vs. The Fed, Or Trump Vs... Trump? | President Trump broke with tradition by lamenting that rising rates are keeping the dollar strong and the trade deficit wide. But rising rates and a stronger dollar are the results of his own agenda. | 7/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGoogle's Mobile Monopoly | The European Commission just slapped Google with a $5 billion fine for abusing its Android monopoly. How did it create the alleged monopoly? By making Android free. | 7/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Market For Air | How something that's all around us came to be worth millions of dollars. | 7/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThree Indicators To Keep A (Side)eye On | Three worrying indicators to keep an eye on — less complicated than the yield curve, but something you can talk about at the water cooler. | 7/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrade Wars And The Batman Problem | It may be too late to avoid a trade war between the U.S. and China, but there might be a simple way to stop the trade wars of the future. | 7/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSaving Women | Women invest far less of their paychecks than men do. Sallie Krawcheck spent her career on Wall Street and she says this is a problem we need to solve. | 7/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJapan's Ninja Shortage | Japan's population is shrinking. It's harder and harder to find qualified people to fill a lot of jobs. Including ninjas. | 7/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWe Hear You | We respond to your letters, tweets and messages: We talk Iran, yield curve and how to pronounce Hyundai. | 7/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Last Straw | Starbucks, Ikea, Vancouver, Scotland: They've all banned plastic straws. The movement is meant to help reduce plastic waste in the ocean. But will it work, or will it backfire? | 7/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFed Accounts For All! | Banks and other financial institutions have their own banking accounts at the Federal Reserve. Morgan Ricks argues that regular folks should have access to Fed accounts, too. | 7/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Price of A Hyundai in Iran | President Trump recently announced strict economic sanctions in Iran. Today on the show, we talked to a young Iranian man about what it's like to live in the Iranian economy right now. | 7/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Recession Predictor, Still Predictive? | Every time the yield curve has inverted since 1970, the economy has fallen into recession. It's getting close to inverting now, but it may no longer be the recession predictor it once was. | 7/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJobs: 10 Questions in 10 Minutes | It's jobs Friday! For a comprehensive mid-year update on the labor market, we ask labor economist Betsey Stevenson ten questions in ten minutes. | 7/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Long French Goodbye | A quirk in French labor law makes it especially difficult for a company to lay off its employees. It's a system designed to protect workers, but it also has consequences for the rest of the economy. | 7/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStar Spangled Indicator | Flags: symbol of a country, patriotic rallying cry, and a telling economic indicator. Today on the show, a factory in China that makes American flags, and what it tells us about the modern economy. | 7/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Problem With Unobservable Variables | The unemployment rate is already below the Federal Reserve's estimate for maximum employment. But former Fed Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin says it may still have further to fall. | 7/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDungeons & Dragons & Balance Sheets | Every year, the nation's biggest banks are subjected to stress tests, hypothetical disaster scenarios designed to test their balance sheets. But the stress tests could soon be getting less stressful. | 6/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBubble, Bubble, Oil And Trouble | The price of oil continued climbing throughout this year, catching forecasters and consumers by surprise. What happened, and what might make it move in the second half of the year? | 6/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHappy Birthday, Smith v. Keynes | June marks the birthday of two of the most famous economists of all time: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. Whose ideas are most relevant today? Stacey and Cardiff duke it out. | 6/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSallie Krawcheck on #MeToo, Dodd Frank, & Cronuts | We play overrated/underrated with Sallie Krawcheck, Wall Street C-suite veteran and founder of Ellevest. She talks investing, women on Wall Street, and where to find the best BBQ. | 6/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Beautiful Indicator | Team Indicator takes on the World Cup. We drink, we cheer, we watch the game and, of course, we bring our economic indicators. | 6/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMoviePass / Fail? | If you pay MoviePass 10 dollars a month, you can go to the movies every day. Great for customers, but hard on a company's bottom line. Today on the show, what's the plan, MoviePass? | 6/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTeenage (Employment) Wasteland | The teen summer job is a vaunted tradition...one that is fading. Today's teenagers just aren't working as much as their forebears. And that could have serious implications for America's labor market. | 6/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Plight Of The Living Dead | The Death Master File is a list kept by the government. It keeps track of everyone who has died. But what happens when you end up on the list while you're still alive? | 6/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Measure Of A Tragedy | Venezuela's economy has collapsed, and the normal economic indicators have gotten so bad they're almost unfathomable. So one economist created an indicator to capture the awful human cost. | 6/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Art Of The Trade War | The U.S. and China are on track for a trade war. Economists generally say that's a bad idea... but if the U.S. wants to get tough on China, what are some alternatives? | 6/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGettin' Giggy With It | Despite the proliferation of apps like Lyft, TaskRabbit, and Uber, a new government report found no growth in people primarily doing this kind of work. Here's how the "gig economy" is and isn't changing. | 6/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrading Spaces | The New York Stock Exchange — that bastion of American capitalism — owes its existence to two dozen men, a buttonwood tree, and a coffee shop. Today on The Indicator: the history of Wall Street. | 6/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDude, Where's My Trade War? | One way to think of President Trump's trade policy is as a sort of soap opera. Today, we catch you up on the latest dramatic twists and also answer a big, looming question: are we in a trade war? | 6/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCBO vs. POTUS | The Congressional Budget Office has a long history of disputes with the White House, including the current administration. But Alice Rivlin — the first-ever director of the CBO — says this time is different. | 6/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLet Them Eat Marshmallows | The marshmallow test is one of the most famous social experiments of all time, but we may be thinking about it all wrong. | 6/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPositively 23rd Street | Why is one of the busiest blocks in Manhattan littered with empty storefronts? And what does that say about the changing landscape of American retail? | 6/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen Retirement Advice Goes Viral | So how much should you have saved for retirement? We wanted to know, so we asked the guy who invented the 401k. | 6/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSocial Insecurity | Social Security has traditionally paid for itself, with money leftover. Until this year. Social Security has a funding problem and it's getting bad quickly. | 6/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDo You Have $400? | The U.S. economy has been humming along in the last few years, but that momentum can mask the financial fragility of millions of people who are just one emergency away from financial disaster. | 6/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Economics of Vaccines | Vaccines are expensive and time-consuming to develop and there's no guarantee the investment will ever pay off. This means promising vaccines often sit in laboratory freezers during major epidemics. | 6/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTo Err Is Human, To Revise Divine | The monthly jobs report. Economists watch it, financial markets move on it, but it may not be as accurate as you'd think. | 6/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInternet a la Carte | A new study tries to put a dollar amount on free internet services... by looking at how much money it would take for people to give them up. | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMoney For Moms | After six years of preparation, an ambitious new experiment will study the effects of income on the development of infant brains. | 5/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBanking's Regulation Rollback | Last week, Congress and President Trump passed a bill rolling back regulation put in place by the 2010 Dodd Frank banking reform bill. We look at what changed and what it means. | 5/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanEarnings Calls Gone Wild | The earnings call is a peculiar Wall Street ritual, one that's almost designed to be boring. So when something interesting does happen it's news. Today, the lessons of those earnings calls gone rogue. | 5/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Money Detectives | Recent news has cast a spotlight on a little-known regulatory agency quietly working behind the scenes of our economy. What is FinCEN and why is it so important? | 5/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMost Inane Deduction? | The mortgage interest deduction is popular, but it has numerous distorting effects on the economy – and economists also say that it does exactly the opposite of what people think. | 5/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWomen in Bondland | Finance is notorious for being a boys club. Marilyn Cohen has worked in the bond market for 30 years. She talks about what it takes to succeed in her field and why there aren't more women. | 5/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStacey And Cardiff Take On The Commencement Speech | Congrats, Class of 2018! Rather than listen to another meandering cliche-riddled commencement speech, let Stacey and Cardiff guide you through young-adult life with advice backed up by research. | 5/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTime Bandits | Timekeeping software is becoming the standard across the U.S. And it turns out, it can be used to steal workers' wages, a few minutes at a time. | 5/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSNAP Back To Reality | Congress may soon expand work requirements for people who receive benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But do these work requirements match the reality of work itself? | 5/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAll Bets Are On | Thanks to a recent Supreme Court decision, legal sports betting may be coming to a city near you. | 5/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRising Rates Vs. The Housing Market | Interest rates are on the rise for the first time in years. What that means for the housing market is far from obvious. | 5/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Semiconductor Standoff | What one embattled smartphone-maker can tell us about China's plan to transform its economy | 5/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIn Vino, Veritas by Numbers | Assigning a grade to a bottle of wine might seem counterintuitive, or even a little absurd, but wine scores have can have a big impact the people who sell wine — and the people who drink it. | 5/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFailing College | Colleges are seeing fewer and fewer students apply every year. To try and stay solvent and attract students, they're trying all kinds of things, from lazy rivers to M&A. | 5/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanIndicator and Beyond | It's the 100th Indicator! To celebrate, we look to the future... and to alternate futures. The Indicator takes a break from economics to tackle infinity. | 5/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Good, The Bad and The Tax Cuts | The corporate tax cut passed in December was supposed to compel businesses to boost investment. Is it working, or are companies just passing the savings on to their owners? | 5/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 'I' Of The LIBOR | The LIBOR interest rate was at the center of a huge international scandal back in 2012. Regulators believed it had to replaced. But is that even possible? | 5/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Perks Of Counting The Wallflowers | It's jobs day! But the unemployment number might not be the most important thing to watch. | 5/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBaby Bubbles | Housing markets are hot. But are they bubblicious? | 5/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAging Up | Most people think the best time to start a business is when you're young. | 5/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Only Prescription Is More Transparency | Healthcare is expensive. Transparency in pricing might make it cheaper. | 5/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanInflation Target Acquired | The Federal Reserve has hit its inflation target. Now comes the hard part - staying at two percent. | 4/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Homeless Count | The homeless population in Los Angeles County has been skyrocketing. A team from USC tried to figure out why. | 4/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCalifornia's Housing Conundrum | Almost everyone in California agrees that there's not enough housing in the state. But no one wants building in their backyard. | 4/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Farm Labor Drought | Water isn't the only shortage California farmers are worried about. There's a labor drought, too. | 4/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhen China's Ships Come In | A spat over tariffs is giving California ports pause. | 4/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clean3 Things You Didn't Know About LA | Los Angeles - it's not what you think. | 4/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe New Bond Villain | Concerns about the yield on the 10-year Treasury note going above three percent are overblown. | 4/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmazon vs Trump Goes Postal | President Trump's objection to Amazon's deal with the Postal Service is based on dodgy data. | 4/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLawn Chair Economics | China steals a lot of intellectual property from the U.S. The smartest thing for the U.S. to do in return might be ... nothing. | 4/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTax Refunds, A Habitual Health Problem | The way many Americans manage their taxes could be bad for their health. | 4/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Loan Ranger | Most people think you can't get rid of student loans in bankruptcy. Turns out most people are wrong. | 4/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCongress Does Not Compute | The percentage of congressional representatives with a background in computers: THREE | 4/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnsung Indicators | Our show goes old school in this episode and brings you three under-appreciated economic indicators about things that affect us all. | 4/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDeficit Attention Disorder | The CBO projects the federal budget deficit could top 800 billion dollars this year... and reach a cool trillion by 2020. So ... what? | 4/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTyler Cowen Rates America | Data, the humanities, and the suburbs: Tyler returns for another round of Overrated vs. Underrated | 4/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMind The Pay Gap | Women still make less than men in the U.S. Exactly how much less is not necessarily a straightforward question. | 4/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhere The Jobs Are | Chinese tariffs could threaten more than 1.8 million American jobs. | 4/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMorbidity, Peak Child, And Collective Pessimism | Five interesting facts about our world that you probably didn't know. | 4/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStop, Collaborate, And Listen | Cross-genre musical collaboration used be a small niche in the popular music scene. Today it's verging on domination. | 4/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Original Bailout | In 1907, America's financial system ran into trouble. Trust in financial institutions evaporated, and contagion swept through the economy. Then John Pierpont Morgan stepped in. | 4/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanChina, Tariffs, And The Hogs Of War | The tariffs China just imposed on 128 American-made items will cost the U.S. about 3 billion dollars a year. That's not much to the nation, but it's a big deal if you make one of the products on the list. | 4/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDisability In Decline | A long-term trend of Americans withdrawing from the workforce due to disability has gone into reverse. | 3/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDollars And Census | The census is more than a headcount. It determines how federal dollars are spent and how districts are represented in Congress. | 3/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCostly Care In America | Americans spend more on healthcare than people in other high-income countries, and it's not because we use more of it. | 3/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDollars for Data | From Google Maps to Yelp to Instagram, the internet gives us access to all sorts of services without having to pay a cent. But are they really free? | 3/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Oil Rig Count | One of the best gauges of the state of the oil business is a pretty simple one: just count the drilling rigs. | 3/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanToo Small To Fail | Independent bookstores are experiencing a surprising renaissance. | 3/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTrump vs. Trudeau: Both Right, Both Wrong | Trump says we have a trade deficit with Canada. He's right... and he's also wrong. | 3/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Brief History of Tariffs | The debate over tariffs is nothing new. In fact, it's as old as the country itself. A look at how the debate began. | 3/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Reinvention Of The IPO | Having disrupted the music business, Spotify is trying the same trick with the stock market. | 3/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Bear Necessities | The man who wrote the book on the collapse of Bear Stearns talks about what happened a decade ago and where we are today. | 3/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCalculated Risk, Calculated Caution | Bill McBride has been remarkably prescient about the big swings in the U.S. economy. And he's starting to get uneasy. | 3/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat Trade Organization? | The justification used by the Trump administration for its steel and aluminum tariffs is riskier for the global trading system than the tariffs themselves. | 3/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBonds... Japanese Bonds | Team Indicator takes your questions, concerns, and James Bond-related car trivia. | 3/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHurricane Joseph & The Calculator That Time Forgot | Creative destruction is a fact of economic life that few products can resist. Graphing calculators are a notable exception | 3/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Jobs Report: Where The Ladies At? | Why has the share of women in the labor force been stagnant for almost two decades? | 3/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLet's Get Ready to Retail! | In the red corner: the uncontested retail champion of the world: WalMart. In the blue corner, the behemoth of online sales: Amazon. | 3/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Child Prodigy, A Nervous Breakdown, and The Discovery of Romantic Poetry | What happens when a classical economist finds out the world is much more complicated than he thought? | 3/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCobalt: Rare and Everywhere | Cobalt used to be a sideshow on the periodic table. Now it's the main event. | 3/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSticker Shock: The State Of The American Car Industry | The average American car is now more expensive than it's ever been. And guess what? Sales of new cars are falling. | 3/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOil's Magic Price | There's a sweet spot for every oil well in America. | 3/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Cost of Life in America | Over the past two decades, prices on average have increased. But certain things have gotten cheaper while others have gotten more expensive, and which is which can tell us a lot. | 3/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMore Band For Your Buck | To understand the Trump administration's approach to trade tariffs, look no further than the humble rubber band. | 2/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Case For Overshooting | We have a new Federal Reserve chair. His name is Jerome Powell. Here's what we can expect. | 2/27/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanProductivity With A Side Of Chicken | Why productivity could be the most important data point in the economy...and how did KFC manage to run out of chicken? | 2/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGuns And The Trump Slump | Today more than two thirds of the guns in America are owned by just 20 percent of gun owners. That's not always good for gunmakers. | 2/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 28-Hour Work Week | Imagine being able to work fewer hours during a difficult time in your life, without having to quit your job or interrupt your career. In Germany, for many workers, that's now a reality. | 2/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Olympics, Afrofuturism and Sichuan Food | Our guest, Tyler Cowen, has smart insights into a ridiculously wide range of subjects. Our conversation is a lightning round that touches everything from Afrofuturist flicks to the mouth-numbing qualities of the Sichuan peppercorn. | 2/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Spy Who Trolled Me | Russia spent 73 million Rubles a month to influence an American election. But what did they get for their money? | 2/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCraft Beer Hops the Shark | As craft beer exploded over the last decade, the hops business boomed. Then came the bust. | 2/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOvershooting, Tipping Points, and ABBA | How a classic econ book explains ABBA's costumes (among other things). | 2/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanStimulus Response | An economist from the Obama administration thinks the economy still needs stimulus. Will the Republican tax and spending bills provide it? | 2/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSanctions on Ice | A story of sanctions, the Olympics, and a secret wing of the North Korean government. | 2/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFear: The Index | An index that was invented to measure people's expectations about the stock market may be driving the market itself. | 2/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Job Market Is Almost There | Today on the show: What our three favorite jobs numbers tell us about the state of the economy. | 2/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Market for Stolen Passwords | A stolen Amazon password costs $10. Bank of America is $25. What a price list discovered on the dark web says about about the market for your stolen passwords. | 2/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanObama, Trump, And Trade | President Trump's new tariff on solar panels kicks in this week. But the story of where that tariff comes from goes back to the Obama administration. | 2/7/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDow De Ching | The stock market's drop over the past few days wasn't weird. What was weird was what the market did for all of 2017. | 2/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWells Fargo's Corset | The Federal Reserve just told Wells Fargo it can't grow. On today's show: Why that's a big deal for Wells Fargo, and for other big banks. | 2/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Are They Doing Now? | We look at three groups that got hammered especially hard during the recession and ask: How are they doing now? | 2/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat America Sells To The World | U.S. exports include airplanes, education and lots of blood. | 2/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJanet Yellen's Mystery Story | It's Janet Yellen's last week running the Federal Reserve. A speech she gave last year illuminates an economic mystery — and the boldness she brought to the Fed. | 1/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWeed GDP | When Canada decided to legalize marijuana, James Tebrake decided to learn everything he could about Canada's marijuana economy. | 1/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Black Car Fund | There's lots of talk about the problems of the gig economy. On today's show, we talk about a solution. | 1/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanAmazon, IPOs, and the Queen of the Demonweb Pits | We play overrated/underrated with Glenn Kelman, CEO of Redfin. Topics include home ownership, taking a company public, and twin telepathy. | 1/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Mafia Story With a Twist | Today on the show: citrus, globalization, and the birth of the mafia. | 1/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Long-Term Bet Gone Bust | Long-term-care insurance seemed like the next big thing. Then insurance companies started losing billions of dollars. What went wrong? | 1/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanGoogle Selfies | Today's Indicator: Your face. It's worth money. It's the next big thing. And, if you're like most of us, you're giving it away. | 1/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanI Can't Believe It's Not Budget | The government shutdown was a symptom of a bigger problem: Congress seems incapable of passing a proper budget. | 1/22/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Rise and Fall and Rise of Oil Prices | Last summer, the price of oil was $44 a barrel. This week, it briefly hit $70. What happened? And what does it mean for the future of oil prices? | 1/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Beigies | Welcome to the Beigies, the only awards show honoring the best economic stories in the Fed's Beige Book. | 1/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSaudi Arabia After Oil: An IPO, Tech Jobs, and Yanni | The young crown prince is trying to figure out how to save his country before the money runs out. | 1/17/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Case For Earmarks | Congressional earmarks have a bad reputation. But, our guest argues, they're just what America needs. | 1/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Recession Predictor | There's a warning sign for the economy with an amazing track record. It's not flashing now, but it's close enough to make us nervous. | 1/12/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSuch Cryptocurrency. So Amaze. | Dogecoin, a bitcoin spinoff created as a joke, is now worth $1.4 billion. The coin's creator tells us how the joke became real — and explains why he has mixed feelings about the whole thing. | 1/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe War On Coal | President Trump's Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, had a plan to prop up the coal industry. This week, a federal commission—led by a Trump appointee—rejected it. | 1/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhy Quitting Is Awesome | The state of the American job market, as revealed by jobs numbers released this morning. | 1/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhat To Do About Inequality | A lot of popular plans for boosting middle-class wages don't work as well as as they used to. Here are a few ideas that might work now. | 1/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHidden Gems of the Jobs Report | Here are three illuminating but largely overlooked numbers from today's jobs report. | 1/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanJust Another Manic January | It's going to be a huge month for economic policy. | 1/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCorruption, Protests, and the Price of Eggs in Iran | Thousands of people are protesting in the streets of Iran. Part of the reason: the price of eggs just went through the roof. | 1/3/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Next Debt Crunch | The U.S. economy is doing great. Here's something to worry about. | 1/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe 50-Year Newspaper | Daily news coverage gives us a lopsided view of the world. What would the top stories be if we only got a news update once every 50 years? | 12/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanOur Indicators Of The Year | Despite all the protectionist rhetoric, global trade grew really quickly this year. Also: a crazy, 80-year ride from sun god to TMI. | 12/27/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanHow Airfare Is Changing | Why some routes are getting more expensive while others are getting cheaper. | 12/22/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanCould The Republican Tax Bill Help Democrats Later? | The Democrats have been struggling with a problem for a while now. The new tax bill could ultimately help them solve it. | 12/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Toll Also Rises | Basic economics says a new toll for commuters makes everybody better off. But what if basic economics is wrong? | 12/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanForget Neutrality | Most Americans have at most one choice for broadband internet. On today's show: How it got that way, and what it means for the debate over net neutrality. | 12/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFull Employment: Are We There Yet? | Why is it so hard to figure out when the economy is at full employment? And why does the Fed keep getting it wrong? | 12/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBitcoin, Unemployment, and Mythical Beasts | Our guest, Tyler Cowen, has smart insights into a ridiculously wide range of subjects. Our conversation is a lightning round that touches everything from the stock market to dystopian novels. | 12/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhere's My Raise? | The unemployment rate is really low, but wages are barely rising. What's going on? | 12/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanLoopholes And Deficits | Republicans have been complaining about deficits forever. This was their big chance to do something. Why didn't they? | 12/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPower Pinch | The history of sexual harassment training videos, and the surprising insight it gives us into the current wave of sexual harassment cases. | 12/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanComing Soon | A new podcast from the people who make Planet Money. | 12/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Not Planet Money
Planet Money tries to avoid being liberal propaganda. Like most NPR shows it leans left but not so much so that it is annoying. The indicator is very biased. I will give it one more shot. If I wanted to listen to MSNBC I would just turn that on. One example of the leftist bias was the episode on the tax reform bill helping Democrats. There was no attempt in this episode to cover both sides. Cardiff said that every credible study showed that all the tax cuts were going to the rich. That is not true. Cardiff needs to get out of the bubble and read some differing opinions.
NPR showing its bias once again
If you want to listen to a show that is now clearly part of the resistance, this is your show. Always focusing on the views from the left and distorting or dismissing views from the right.
Too partisan
I love Planet Money and think they do a great job staying politically neutral although some episodes seem to slightly lean left. I'm ok with that. This podcast so far leans much more left instead of neutral analysis. So much potential....

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