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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

One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away

9 mins; June 25, 2025

Will Iran block the Strait of Hormuz?

9 mins; June 24, 2025

You told us how tariffs are affecting you

9 mins; June 23, 2025

SALT-n-pessimism

8 mins; June 20, 2025

Why the 30-year bond matters

9 mins; June 18, 2025

Mixing family business with US trade policy in Vietnam

8 mins; June 17, 2025

The secret to Nintendo's success

9 mins; June 16, 2025

Trump's parade, FEMA phase out, and Warner Bros. Discovery divorces ... itself?

8 mins; June 13, 2025

The hidden costs of healthcare churn

8 mins; June 12, 2025

The secret tariff-free zone

9 mins; June 11, 2025

What's a revenge tax?

9 mins; June 10, 2025

How doctors helped tank universal health care

9 mins; June 09, 2025

Why U.S. workers keep getting more productive

9 mins; June 06, 2025

Gilded Age 2.0?

9 mins; June 05, 2025

An indicator lost: big disaster costs

9 mins; June 04, 2025

Who should get mom's ring?

9 mins; June 03, 2025

Why Gen Z is feeling 'money dysmorphia'

9 mins; June 02, 2025

Let's 'TACO' 'bout General Motors gassing up V-8s and golden shares

9 mins; May 30, 2025

Are Trump's trade deals the real deal?

9 mins; May 29, 2025

Why are college coaches paid so much?

9 mins; May 28, 2025

How to build abundantly

9 mins; May 27, 2025

The dawn of search engines

9 mins; May 26, 2025

Target, Klarna and Sesame Street's new addy

9 mins; May 23, 2025

How Trump is making coin from $TRUMP coin

9 mins; May 22, 2025

The old trade war that brought foreign carmakers to the U.S.

8 mins; May 21, 2025

The rise of the credit card airport lounge

9 mins; May 20, 2025

The Art of the deal ft. Beyoncé

8 mins; May 19, 2025

Brain-controlled iPhones, a Japanese asset buy-a-thon, and Trump tax cut debt

8 mins; May 16, 2025

Bond market nightmares

9 mins; May 15, 2025

What we misunderstand about gun violence

9 mins; May 14, 2025

A brief history of NPR funding

9 mins; May 13, 2025

It's actually really hard to make a robot, guys

9 mins; May 12, 2025

Prepping for a rainy day and higher used car prices

10 mins; May 09, 2025

It's hard out there for a Fed chair

9 mins; May 08, 2025

Why do shrimpers like tariffs?

9 mins; May 07, 2025

What do farmers do in a trade war?

9 mins; May 06, 2025

Trump's cuts come for food banks

9 mins; May 05, 2025

American science brain drain

9 mins; May 02, 2025

How much international students matter to the economy

9 mins; May 01, 2025

How stable is Stablecoin?

9 mins; April 30, 2025

Is the US pushing countries towards China?

8 mins; April 29, 2025

When do boycotts work?

9 mins; April 28, 2025

Student loans are back, US travel is whack, and, AI, please, step back

9 mins; April 25, 2025

Who's advising Trump on trade?

9 mins; April 24, 2025

Dealmaker Don v. Tariff Man Trump

9 mins; April 23, 2025

China's trade war perspective

9 mins; April 22, 2025

A trap-loving DJ takes on economics

9 mins; April 21, 2025

Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)

9 mins; April 17, 2025

Did Trump enable insider trading?

9 mins; April 16, 2025

The spat over VAT

9 mins; April 15, 2025

How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update)

8 mins; April 14, 2025

IRS information sharing, bonds bust, and a chorebot future

9 mins; April 11, 2025

What keeps a Fed president up at night

9 mins; April 10, 2025

What happens when an economist becomes prime minister?

9 mins; April 09, 2025

What's so bad about a trade deficit?

9 mins; April 08, 2025

Tariffied! We check in on businesses

8 mins; April 07, 2025

How states are scooping up federal workers

7 mins; April 04, 2025

Why the great vinyl shortage is over

9 mins; April 03, 2025

What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you

9 mins; April 02, 2025

Should we vote for all judges?

8 mins; April 01, 2025

Overly Friendly Emails and other marketing pet peeves

9 mins; March 31, 2025

Missing taxes, spiking copper and Napster's re-re-rebirth

9 mins; March 28, 2025

How nonprofits get cash from your clunker

8 mins; March 27, 2025

Can Europe stand without the US?

9 mins; March 26, 2025

How's ... everybody doing?

9 mins; March 25, 2025

How specialization can lead to burn-out

9 mins; March 24, 2025

A new-ish gold rush and other indicators

9 mins; March 21, 2025

What's this about a crypto reserve?

9 mins; March 20, 2025

Why there's no referee for the trade war

9 mins; March 19, 2025

What might save China's economy

9 mins; March 18, 2025

Why is the federal government still killing coyotes?

8 mins; March 17, 2025

Southwest surprises, tariff guac shock, and fraud flourishes

9 mins; March 14, 2025

How many times can you say uncertainty in one economic report?

8 mins; March 13, 2025

The stock market is down, but you don't need to be

8 mins; March 12, 2025

Can you take government spending out of GDP?

8 mins; March 11, 2025

What Bad Bunny teaches us about Puerto Rican tax law

9 mins; March 10, 2025

Can ... we still trust the monthly jobs report?

8 mins; March 07, 2025

What to make of the Ukraine minerals deal

9 mins; March 06, 2025

Is the Panama Canal a rip-off?

9 mins; March 05, 2025

Can the Federal Reserve stay independent?

9 mins; March 04, 2025

How tourist destinations recover after terrorism

8 mins; March 03, 2025

Slender Starbucks, Medicaid at risk, and the gold card visa

9 mins; February 28, 2025

Europe's NATO members take an economic hit

9 mins; February 27, 2025

A polite message from Canada to the U.S.

9 mins; February 26, 2025

What's the long-term cost of federal layoffs?

9 mins; February 25, 2025

What if our income was taxed ... totally differently?

9 mins; February 24, 2025

Chicken meat, Gulf of Mexico lawsuit and Social Security beyond the grave

9 mins; February 21, 2025

What happens when billions of dollars in research funding goes away

9 mins; February 20, 2025

How USAID cuts hurt American farmers

8 mins; February 19, 2025

What the cluck is happening with egg prices?

9 mins; February 18, 2025

WWE, a very expensive banana, and a quiz contestant

9 mins; February 17, 2025

Bailing out the FAIR plan, broligarchs beef, and CFPB RIP?

9 mins; February 14, 2025

The gutting of USAID

9 mins; February 13, 2025

Exposing Charles Ponzi

9 mins; February 12, 2025

The U.K.'s tariff balancing act

9 mins; February 11, 2025

How the memecoin game is played

9 mins; February 10, 2025

A 'Fork in the Road' for federal employees

9 mins; February 07, 2025

How would a US sovereign wealth fund even work?

9 mins; February 06, 2025

Trump's tariff role model

9 mins; February 05, 2025

Trump threatens the grim trigger

9 mins; February 04, 2025

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