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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.LIVE TOUR & BOOK INFO: planetmoneybook.com

Who is the World Cup for anymore?

9 mins; November 11, 2025

How the French pensions débâcle is a warning to us all

9 mins; November 10, 2025

Can air traffic controllers keep calm and carry on — without pay?

9 mins; November 07, 2025

This indicator hasn’t flashed this red since the dot-com bubble

9 mins; November 06, 2025

Who's propping up Russian oil?

8 mins; November 05, 2025

How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock

9 mins; November 04, 2025

When AI is your job interviewer

9 mins; November 03, 2025

A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices

9 mins; October 31, 2025

Are China and India BFFs now?

8 mins; October 30, 2025

Is Obamacare doomed without extended subsidies?

8 mins; October 29, 2025

How Marxism went from philosophy to cudgel

9 mins; October 28, 2025

The new language of AI tech workers

9 mins; October 27, 2025

Amazon's outage, anxious retirees, and LA brings the Heat, too

9 mins; October 24, 2025

Are concert tickets UNDER priced?

9 mins; October 23, 2025

No AI data centers in my backyard!

9 mins; October 22, 2025

Should we ditch quarterly earnings reports?

8 mins; October 21, 2025

Why are veterinarian bills getting so ruff on the wallet?

8 mins; October 20, 2025

Government shutdown fallout, price floors, and AI slop against the machine

9 mins; October 17, 2025

OpenAI's deals are looking a little frothy

9 mins; October 16, 2025

Inside the growing industry to defend schools from mass shootings

9 mins; October 15, 2025

Why do we live in unusually innovative times?

9 mins; October 14, 2025

Scam compounds, sewing patterns and stolen dimes

10 mins; October 10, 2025

How AI might mess with financial markets

10 mins; October 09, 2025

When cartels start to diversify

9 mins; October 08, 2025

What’s supercharging data breaches?

9 mins; October 07, 2025

Fighting AI with AI

9 mins; October 06, 2025

Vice Series: The evolving business of crime

1 min; October 05, 2025

Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore

9 mins; October 03, 2025

How close is the US to crony capitalism?

9 mins; October 02, 2025

Why is everyone buying gold?

9 mins; October 01, 2025

We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers

9 mins; September 30, 2025

What media consolidation means for free speech

8 mins; September 29, 2025

Argentina's bailout, a new way to cool data centers, and a cold holiday hiring season

8 mins; September 26, 2025

No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines

8 mins; September 25, 2025

Why are so many public schools closing?

8 mins; September 24, 2025

Should 'surveillance pricing' be banned?

8 mins; September 23, 2025

Can LA host a 'car-free' Olympics?

8 mins; September 22, 2025

The Fed cuts rates, America's FICO dips, and forever ends for sweepstakes winners

9 mins; September 19, 2025

Why "free" public education doesn't always include school supplies

8 mins; September 18, 2025

The crypto market is hot. But is it an illusion?

8 mins; September 17, 2025

Why an aggressive rate cut could backfire on Trump

9 mins; September 16, 2025

Why beef prices are so high

9 mins; September 15, 2025

ICE raids, cooling on capitalism, and a Murdoch settlement

9 mins; September 12, 2025

We read your mail on AI-proof jobs and how to fix crime labs

8 mins; September 11, 2025

Can shareholders influence Elon Musk's trillion dollar pay package?

8 mins; September 10, 2025

The cost of saving a species

9 mins; September 09, 2025

Teamwork actually does make the dream work

8 mins; September 08, 2025

Why moms are leaving their paid jobs

9 mins; September 05, 2025

How much is AI actually affecting the workforce?

9 mins; September 04, 2025

So long, farewell, super cheap tariff-free shopping

9 mins; September 03, 2025

Inside the illegal vape boom

9 mins; September 02, 2025

AI creeps in, KATSEYE milkshakes, and China says “Zaijian!” to US soybeans

9 mins; August 29, 2025

What olive oil tells us about Trump's tariffs

9 mins; August 28, 2025

Trump's unprecedented attack on the Fed

9 mins; August 26, 2025

Three ways companies are getting around tariffs

9 mins; August 26, 2025

Can you copyright artwork made using AI?

8 mins; August 25, 2025

Job retraining and the brain, DC dining, and Robinhood's sports bet

9 mins; August 22, 2025

What happens when railroads get hitched

9 mins; August 21, 2025

Cobalt-free batteries reign in Chinese EVs. Why not the US?

9 mins; August 20, 2025

How algorithms are changing the way we speak

9 mins; August 19, 2025

Three innovations pushing the medical field forward

9 mins; August 18, 2025

The nepo baby premium, frothing markets, and Apple vs. Apples

9 mins; August 15, 2025

Why every A-lister also has a side hustle

9 mins; August 14, 2025

Why Trump's spending bill could close your grocery store

9 mins; August 13, 2025

The arduous system for getting aid into Gaza

9 mins; August 12, 2025

What we're reading on the beach this summer

9 mins; August 11, 2025

More for Palantir, less for mRNA, and a disaster database redemption arc

9 mins; August 08, 2025

The legal case for — and against — Trump's tariffs

9 mins; August 07, 2025

What you need to know about the jobs report revisions

9 mins; August 06, 2025

Can we still trust the monthly jobs report? (Update)

7 mins; August 05, 2025

What really goes on at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Update)

9 mins; August 04, 2025

How you're using AI at work

9 mins; August 01, 2025

Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion

9 mins; July 31, 2025

The risk of private equity in your 401(k)

9 mins; July 30, 2025

The hottest multilateral club doesn't include the US

9 mins; July 29, 2025

A baby bonds bonanza

9 mins; July 28, 2025

Nigeria notches new highs, Magic gathers millions, and crypto climbs

9 mins; July 25, 2025

How to beach on a budget

9 mins; July 24, 2025

When Uncle Sam owned banks and factories

9 mins; July 23, 2025

Lunch with the man who coined TACO

8 mins; July 22, 2025

Your tinned fish obsession is helping resurrect a lost industry

8 mins; July 21, 2025

Bonus episode: The Indicator plays... movie business trivia!

14 mins; July 20, 2025

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

2 mins; July 18, 2025

Are you not entertained ... by our movie-related indicators?

9 mins; July 18, 2025

When is cosplay a crime?

9 mins; July 17, 2025

The story of China and Hollywood's big-screen romance

9 mins; July 16, 2025

Why aren't filmmakers shooting in LA?

9 mins; July 15, 2025

Before La La Land, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey

9 mins; July 14, 2025

Red tape indicators: sports betting, R&D and click-to-cancel

9 mins; July 11, 2025

Could Meta do more to protect us from cyber scams?

9 mins; July 10, 2025

Can you afford to evacuate ahead of a disaster?

9 mins; July 09, 2025

Will the tax cuts pay for themselves?

8 mins; July 08, 2025

Why can't we insure trees?

9 mins; July 07, 2025

One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away (EXTENDED VERSION)

20 mins; July 04, 2025

How ICE crackdowns are affecting the workforce

9 mins; July 03, 2025

Tech layoffs, recession pop and more listener questions answered

8 mins; July 02, 2025

We're nearing 'peak population.' These economists are worried.

9 mins; July 01, 2025

Can Starlink stay ahead in satellite internet?

9 mins; June 30, 2025

Babies v climate change; AI v IP; bonds v world

9 mins; June 27, 2025

We're gonna need a bigger boat-building industry

8 mins; June 26, 2025

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