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The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR

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…

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Which jobs are future-proofed? 2026-09-07 · 9m
Are job hoppers better at their jobs? 2026-09-04 · 9m
Does Planet Money’s game pass the shelf test? We go undercover to find out 2026-09-03 · 10m
For a lot of Gen Z, gambling is investing 2026-09-02 · 9m
A Treasury showdown with the bond market 2026-09-01 · 9m
How ICE arrests are creating 'economies of fear' 2026-08-31 · 8m
The teacher pay penalty, Meta's major settlement, and a footwear flop 2026-08-28 · 9m
Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its big break 2026-08-27 · 9m
What Mark Cuban REALLY thinks of Medicare for All 2026-08-26 · 9m
Medicare for All is not Medicare for All 2026-08-25 · 9m
Could politics put your city's funding at risk? 2026-08-24 · 9m
EV sales slow, US Treasury yields grow, 'Niu Lai' has impressive box office mojo 2026-08-21 · 9m
Is bankruptcy really all that bad? 2026-08-20 · 9m
Have a bad manager? Science explains why. 2026-08-19 · 9m
Trump versus Capital One 2026-08-18 · 9m
Did you know companies can vote in Delaware? 2026-08-17 · 9m
Retiree benefits bump, credit repayment slump, and a dating app in the dumps 2026-08-14 · 9m
C is for C-shaped economy 2026-08-13 · 9m
Consumers are mad as hell and aren't gonna take it anymore 2026-08-12 · 9m
Borrowing money to invest! What could go wrong? 2026-08-11 · 9m
Why is Trump paying to stop wind farms? 2026-08-10 · 9m
I'm just here for the health benefits 2026-08-07 · 8m
Following the Chipotle playbook for the cyclospora crisis 2026-08-06 · 9m
How ending TPS is squeezing workers, businesses and (soon) consumers 2026-08-05 · 9m
Why we're short on blood, water and helium 2026-08-04 · 9m
Who is a music industry plant? And does it matter? 2026-08-03 · 9m
Mamdani markets, America bets, Gen Z drinks 2026-07-31 · 9m
Trump’s new Truth Social plan: pay $100K 2026-07-30 · 9m
Even Moore’s law can't save affordable tech 2026-07-29 · 9m
You had housing questions. An economist answered them 2026-07-28 · 10m
Petty! Econ! Grievances! 2026-07-27 · 8m
Three beefs: U.S. and Brazil, Taco Bell and liability, Waymo and trial lawyers 2026-07-24 · 9m
Can Paramount "gift" its way past the FCC? 2026-07-23 · 10m
Can Y’all Street outflank Wall Street? 2026-07-22 · 8m
Tale of Two Cities 2026-07-21 · 9m
Why doesn't the US have better sunscreen? 2026-07-20 · 10m
New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast 2026-07-19 · 3m
The Strait of Hormuz no-fee, China cuts down on pollution and IMAX's economic Odyssey 2026-07-17 · 10m
Why the Pope wants to disarm AI 2026-07-16 · 8m
Why your neighbor might be paying less for their car 2026-07-15 · 9m
Can the internet survive AI summaries? 2026-07-14 · 10m
Young people aren’t paying their car loans. We can help. 2026-07-13 · 9m
SK Hynix to the moon, Gen-Z to their rooms, and Connecticut tax reform looms 2026-07-10 · 9m
Why Google fell behind in the AI race 2026-07-09 · 9m
Cracking down on egg prices 2026-07-08 · 10m
We're in a renter's market (believe it or not) 2026-07-07 · 9m
Why the US is losing the drone war 2026-07-06 · 9m
Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side 2026-07-03 · 35m
Does the new Fed chair care about jobs? 2026-07-02 · 9m
Why Trump wants to rip up his own trade deal 2026-07-01 · 10m
What Iran teaches us about why wars start 2026-06-30 · 10m
What you should know about your student loans 2026-06-29 · 9m
GLP-1 and women, the AI office boom, and RTO: CEO ego? 2026-06-26 · 9m
AI is pumping out books. Are they any good? 2026-06-25 · 9m
How stock options made him an overnight millionaire 2026-06-24 · 10m
Why the $250 bill would be good … For criminals! 2026-06-23 · 9m
An urban planner, infinite scroll, and … what is a public good? 2026-06-22 · 10m
How your phone keeps you scrolling ... even when you want to stop 2026-06-19 · 9m
Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices? 2026-06-18 · 9m
Is gambling the reason we have pro sports? 2026-06-17 · 9m
Your American Dream is pending review 2026-06-16 · 8m
Community colleges are kind of underrated 2026-06-15 · 8m
Inflation is bad, work from home sad, FIFA World Cup tix NOT deal to be had 2026-06-12 · 9m
The SpaceX IPO drama explained 2026-06-11 · 9m
Should we tax AI? 2026-06-10 · 9m
U OK, UK? 2026-06-09 · 9m
The fired labor economist who couldn't get unemployment 2026-06-08 · 9m
Who should new grads boo more? AI or remote work? 2026-06-05 · 9m
Equinomics, bag fees, and leftover campaign dollars 2026-06-04 · 9m
Can the internet be reclaimed from Big Tech? 2026-06-03 · 9m
Why boardinghouses could make a comeback 2026-06-02 · 9m
How AI is clogging the courtroom 2026-06-01 · 9m
Obsession, the most fun job in China, and a new green card policy 2026-05-29 · 9m
Saudi’s LIV golf exit is just the start 2026-05-28 · 9m
What the movies teach us about recessions, memestocks and gold 2026-05-27 · 9m
Who’s behind that shell company? We may never know 2026-05-26 · 9m
Game of 'roids, trader Trump, and searching for Shakira's tax residence 2026-05-22 · 9m
So ... how long until these oil prices get REALLY bad 2026-05-21 · 7m
It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop 2026-05-20 · 10m
Why GLP-1s aren't lowering employers' costs 2026-05-19 · 10m
Taiwan arms sales, Board of Trade, and Chinamaxxing 2026-05-18 · 9m
GameStop rejected, a troubling loan trend, and no to pre-IPO AI shares 2026-05-15 · 9m
How Trump's central bank beef could hurt the economy 2026-05-14 · 9m
Should NATO be pay-to-protect? 2026-05-13 · 9m
Prediction markets are threatening national security. Who's gonna fix it? 2026-05-12 · 9m
The new AI model that could steal your life savings 2026-05-11 · 9m
Which jobs are future-proofed? 2026-05-08 · 10m
Trump crypto, Trump ballroom and Trump drones 2026-05-07 · 9m
When will the Iran war hit food prices? 2026-05-06 · 8m
How your bank account might predict dementia 2026-05-05 · 10m
How taxing the wealthy could work 2026-05-04 · 8m
Polymarket bots, lithium found: lots!, marathon shoe thoughts 2026-05-01 · 9m
The UAE wants a dollar lifeline 2026-04-30 · 9m
The new economic arms race 2026-04-29 · 9m
Jan. 6ers already got pardoned. Will they get their money back too? 2026-04-28 · 9m
Premium and affordable products are having a moment 2026-04-27 · 8m
The Devil Wears Prada Index, SNAP, and flight cancellations 2026-04-24 · 9m
How to get your tariff cash back 2026-04-23 · 9m
The Iran war puts the petrodollar regime to the test 2026-04-22 · 9m
Corporate landlords aren't the real villain 2026-04-21 · 9m
Is anyone gonna do anything about these Iran War trades? 2026-04-20 · 9m
Fed chair, health care, and AI shoe repair 2026-04-17 · 9m
Fixing the oil crisis might not fix the Persian Gulf 2026-04-16 · 9m
Think the oil shock is bad in the US? Look here 2026-04-15 · 10m
How the workplace helps you win Survivor 2026-04-14 · 8m
Can you really do what you love? 2026-04-13 · 10m
Class myths, an influx of e-ships, and pricey Olympics tix! 2026-04-10 · 9m
Where AI data centers are reducing power bills 2026-04-09 · 8m
How are drivers riding out the gas crisis? 2026-04-08 · 9m
Why infinite scroll's inventor wants to kill his creation 2026-04-07 · 9m
Is the economy red, orange, yellow or green? 2026-04-06 · 9m
Jobs that new college grads are and are not landing 2026-04-03 · 9m
Greetings from: Our favorite public goods 2026-04-02 · 7m
Why Pokémon cards are growing faster than your retirement account 2026-04-01 · 9m
Who's afraid of private credit? 2026-03-31 · 9m
Do school lunches really need an overhaul? 2026-03-30 · 9m
The US loses tech hires, sayonora to Sora, and Afroman's win 2026-03-27 · 9m
Tracing the tax that's supposed to fund TSA 2026-03-26 · 8m
Your next flight doesn't have to be so expensive. Here's why 2026-03-25 · 9m
Why hasn't the Russian economy collapsed? 2026-03-24 · 10m
The multimillion dollar Saturday Night Live UK gamble 2026-03-23 · 10m
Trump and truckers, Poland prospers, and a booming ant biz 2026-03-20 · 9m
How Iran is wasting American resources 2026-03-19 · 9m
How much is the Iran war costing us? 2026-03-18 · 8m
A trucker, a farmer, and an entrepreneur walk into a global supply shock 2026-03-17 · 9m
Can anything save the news biz? 2026-03-16 · 9m
A lot of gas trapped, oil reserves tapped, and Live Nation gets a (tiny) cap 2026-03-13 · 9m
Should colleges accept money from bad people? 2026-03-12 · 8m
The shadowy world of merchant cash advances 2026-03-11 · 9m
Will Trump’s shipping insurance plan work? 2026-03-10 · 9m
No healthcare premiums? In this economy?! Here's how. 2026-03-09 · 9m
Why are fewer Americans working the night shift? 2026-03-06 · 9m
Want a 2.5% mortgage? Buy it. 2026-03-05 · 9m
The anxiety rattling China’s youth 2026-03-04 · 9m
Why Paramount went looney tunes for Warner Bros. 2026-03-03 · 9m
Should the families of organ donors be compensated? 2026-03-02 · 9m
ICE is bad for business, heat is bad for coffee, and sci-fi is bad for markets 2026-02-27 · 9m
How your favorite fish sticks might be funding Russia's war 2026-02-26 · 9m
What an Epstein recording reveals about how elites get jobs 2026-02-25 · 9m
Do traders who place big bets make big money? 2026-02-24 · 10m
Why there are roving rotisserie chicken mobs 2026-02-23 · 9m
Can I get my tariff money back now? 2026-02-21 · 9m
Retirement luck, Hassett hassles the Fed, and boneless chicken in ... court? 2026-02-20 · 9m
Why this rural town wants an ICE facility 2026-02-19 · 9m
How well are ICE's 12,000 new officers being trained? 2026-02-18 · 8m
How Iran's flagging economy inflamed its protests 2026-02-17 · 9m
Jobs numbers, immigrants in healthcare, and ... Jesus Christ? 2026-02-13 · 10m
What it costs to be an elite figure skater like the 'Quad God' 2026-02-12 · 10m
What is going on with gold and silver? 2026-02-11 · 9m
The boxed meal helping Americans stay on budget 2026-02-10 · 9m
Are we in an economic 'doom loop'? 2026-02-09 · 9m
Just how bad are these job numbers? 2026-02-06 · 9m
How college sports juiced Olympic development 2026-02-05 · 9m
Warming your house the green way just got more expensive 2026-02-04 · 8m
All these data centers are gonna fry my electric bill … right? 2026-02-03 · 9m
America's next top Fed Chair 2026-02-02 · 9m
A huge EU-India deal, Heated Rivalry, and a hefty $200k to Olympians 2026-01-30 · 10m
Hawaii’s worker shortage goes NUTS 2026-01-29 · 9m
Why isn’t corporate America standing up to Trump? 2026-01-28 · 8m
Can Europe sell America? 2026-01-27 · 10m
How Pakistan is revving up a fight against tax dodgers 2026-01-26 · 9m
Davos drama, credit card caps and tariff truths 2026-01-23 · 10m
How beef climbed to the top of the food pyramid 2026-01-22 · 9m
Is Greenland really an untapped land of riches? 2026-01-21 · 9m
Are U.S. defense contractors lavishing their investors too much? 2026-01-20 · 9m
ICE influencers, a world-record trade surplus, and the moon goes nuclear 2026-01-16 · 9m
Why Trump resurrected the Monroe Doctrine 2026-01-15 · 9m
Can a good story change economic reality? 2026-01-14 · 8m
One Fed battle after another 2026-01-13 · 9m
How far can philanthropy go to fill government gaps? 2026-01-12 · 8m
How AI is shrinking the job market for teens 2026-01-09 · 9m
Venezuela didn't steal U.S. oil. Here's what happened 2026-01-08 · 9m
Can you trust you're getting the same grocery prices as someone else? 2026-01-07 · 9m
How cocaine smuggling through Latin America really works 2026-01-06 · 9m
Why China pulled the plug on Japan 2026-01-05 · 9m
Venezuela’s economic descent (Updated) 2026-01-03 · 10m
We resolve to watch these 2026 indicators 2026-01-02 · 9m
Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore (Encore) 2025-12-31 · 10m
Gilded Age 2.0? (Encore) 2025-12-30 · 10m
The cautionary tale of a recovering day trading addict (Encore) 2025-12-29 · 9m
The economic challenges facing men without college degrees 2025-12-27 · 24m
The secret to Nintendo's success (Encore) 2025-12-26 · 11m
Why every A-lister also has a side hustle (Encore) 2025-12-24 · 9m
The worst year of Warren Buffett’s career 2025-12-23 · 10m
The spite acquisition that launched Warren Buffett 2025-12-22 · 9m
Tariffs. Consumer sentiment. Cape Ratio. Pick The Indicator of The Year! 2025-12-19 · 9m
Catching up with a fired federal worker, a shrimper and a fraudster 2025-12-18 · 10m
The ghosts of Obamacare past, present and future 2025-12-17 · 9m
Will new loan limits lower the cost of grad school? 2025-12-16 · 10m
Can American cities grow AND stay affordable? 2025-12-15 · 9m
Nvidia chips for China, frozen Russian funds, and a lot of self-checkout stealing 2025-12-12 · 9m
How to make $35 trillion ... disappear 2025-12-11 · 11m
Bitcoin miners are betting on AI over crypto 2025-12-10 · 9m
How a former Fed vice chair would approach rate cuts 2025-12-09 · 9m
Take a penny, leave a penny, get rid of the penny 2025-12-08 · 9m
Chips up, rent down, and are people really skimping on holiday gifts? 2025-12-05 · 9m
A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy 2025-12-04 · 9m
How Japan’s new prime minister is jolting markets 2025-12-03 · 9m
What would it mean to actually refund the tariffs? 2025-12-02 · 9m
Why the US chose not to have a passenger train system like Europe 2025-12-01 · 9m
Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help 2025-11-26 · 9m
Who's financing Meta's massive AI data center? 2025-11-25 · 9m
Who’s buying all the beef? 2025-11-24 · 9m
Pay transparency. The WhatsApp and Instagram decision. Our beef with screwworms. 2025-11-21 · 9m
How to avoid scammers after a natural disaster 2025-11-19 · 9m
Looking for love in the auto supply chain 2025-11-19 · 9m
How to make switching jobs not terrifying 2025-11-18 · 9m
Why you overpaid at that online auction 2025-11-17 · 9m
50-year mortgages, falling real wages, and doing your rideshare due diligence 2025-11-14 · 9m
Where the US got $20B to bail out Argentina 2025-11-13 · 9m
Trump's backup options for tariffs 2025-11-12 · 9m
Who is the World Cup for anymore? 2025-11-11 · 9m
How the French pensions débâcle is a warning to us all 2025-11-10 · 9m
Can air traffic controllers keep calm and carry on — without pay? 2025-11-07 · 9m
This indicator hasn’t flashed this red since the dot-com bubble 2025-11-06 · 9m
Who's propping up Russian oil? 2025-11-05 · 9m
How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock 2025-11-04 · 9m
When AI is your job interviewer 2025-11-03 · 9m
A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices 2025-10-31 · 9m
Are China and India BFFs now? 2025-10-30 · 9m
Is Obamacare doomed without extended subsidies? 2025-10-29 · 9m
How Marxism went from philosophy to cudgel 2025-10-28 · 10m
The new language of AI tech workers 2025-10-27 · 9m
Amazon's outage, anxious retirees, and LA brings the Heat, too 2025-10-24 · 9m
Are concert tickets UNDER priced? 2025-10-23 · 9m
No AI data centers in my backyard! 2025-10-22 · 9m
Should we ditch quarterly earnings reports? 2025-10-21 · 8m
Why are veterinarian bills getting so ruff on the wallet? 2025-10-20 · 8m
Government shutdown fallout, price floors, and AI slop against the machine 2025-10-17 · 9m
OpenAI's deals are looking a little frothy 2025-10-16 · 10m
Inside the growing industry to defend schools from mass shootings 2025-10-15 · 9m
Why do we live in unusually innovative times? 2025-10-14 · 10m
Scam compounds, sewing patterns and stolen dimes 2025-10-10 · 11m
How AI might mess with financial markets 2025-10-09 · 10m
When cartels start to diversify 2025-10-08 · 9m
What’s supercharging data breaches? 2025-10-07 · 9m
Fighting AI with AI 2025-10-06 · 9m
Vice Series: The evolving business of crime 2025-10-05 · 1m
Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore 2025-10-03 · 9m
How close is the US to crony capitalism? 2025-10-02 · 9m
Why is everyone buying gold? 2025-10-01 · 10m
We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers 2025-09-30 · 10m
What media consolidation means for free speech 2025-09-29 · 8m
Argentina's bailout, a new way to cool data centers, and a cold holiday hiring season 2025-09-26 · 8m
No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines 2025-09-25 · 9m
Why are so many public schools closing? 2025-09-24 · 9m
Should 'surveillance pricing' be banned? 2025-09-23 · 9m
Can LA host a 'car-free' Olympics? 2025-09-22 · 9m
The Fed cuts rates, America's FICO dips, and forever ends for sweepstakes winners 2025-09-19 · 9m
Why "free" public education doesn't always include school supplies 2025-09-18 · 9m
The crypto market is hot. But is it an illusion? 2025-09-17 · 8m
Why an aggressive rate cut could backfire on Trump 2025-09-16 · 9m
Why beef prices are so high 2025-09-15 · 9m
ICE raids, cooling on capitalism, and a Murdoch settlement 2025-09-12 · 10m
We read your mail on AI-proof jobs and how to fix crime labs 2025-09-11 · 8m
Can shareholders influence Elon Musk's trillion dollar pay package? 2025-09-10 · 9m
The cost of saving a species 2025-09-09 · 9m
Teamwork actually does make the dream work 2025-09-08 · 9m
Why moms are leaving their paid jobs 2025-09-05 · 10m
How much is AI actually affecting the workforce? 2025-09-04 · 9m
So long, farewell, super cheap tariff-free shopping 2025-09-03 · 9m
Inside the illegal vape boom 2025-09-02 · 9m
AI creeps in, KATSEYE milkshakes, and China says “Zaijian!” to US soybeans 2025-08-29 · 9m
What olive oil tells us about Trump's tariffs 2025-08-28 · 9m
Trump's unprecedented attack on the Fed 2025-08-27 · 9m
Three ways companies are getting around tariffs 2025-08-26 · 9m
Job retraining and the brain, DC dining, and Robinhood's sports bet 2025-08-22 · 9m
What happens when railroads get hitched 2025-08-21 · 9m
Cobalt-free batteries reign in Chinese EVs. Why not the US? 2025-08-20 · 9m
How algorithms are changing the way we speak 2025-08-19 · 10m
Three innovations pushing the medical field forward 2025-08-18 · 9m
The nepo baby premium, frothing markets, and Apple vs. Apples 2025-08-15 · 9m
Why every A-lister also has a side hustle 2025-08-14 · 9m
Why Trump's spending bill could close your grocery store 2025-08-13 · 9m
The arduous system for getting aid into Gaza 2025-08-12 · 9m
What we're reading on the beach this summer 2025-08-11 · 9m
More for Palantir, less for mRNA, and a disaster database redemption arc 2025-08-08 · 9m
The legal case for — and against — Trump's tariffs 2025-08-07 · 9m
What you need to know about the jobs report revisions 2025-08-06 · 9m
Can we still trust the monthly jobs report? (Update) 2025-08-05 · 8m
What really goes on at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Update) 2025-08-04 · 9m
How you're using AI at work 2025-08-01 · 9m
Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion 2025-07-31 · 9m
The risk of private equity in your 401(k) 2025-07-30 · 9m
The hottest multilateral club doesn't include the US 2025-07-29 · 9m
A baby bonds bonanza 2025-07-28 · 9m
Nigeria notches new highs, Magic gathers millions, and crypto climbs 2025-07-25 · 9m
How to beach on a budget 2025-07-24 · 9m
When Uncle Sam owned banks and factories 2025-07-23 · 9m
Lunch with the man who coined TACO 2025-07-22 · 8m
Your tinned fish obsession is helping resurrect a lost industry 2025-07-21 · 9m
Bonus episode: The Indicator plays... movie business trivia! 2025-07-20 · 15m
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media 2025-07-18 · 2m
Are you not entertained ... by our movie-related indicators? 2025-07-18 · 9m
When is cosplay a crime? 2025-07-17 · 9m
The story of China and Hollywood's big-screen romance 2025-07-16 · 10m
Why aren't filmmakers shooting in LA? 2025-07-15 · 9m
Before La La Land, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey 2025-07-14 · 9m
Red tape indicators: sports betting, R&D and click-to-cancel 2025-07-11 · 9m
Could Meta do more to protect us from cyber scams? 2025-07-10 · 9m
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