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.
Latest Episode
50-year mortgages, falling real wages, and doing your rideshare due diligence (14.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Where the US got $20B to bail out Argentina
- Trump's backup options for tariffs
- Who is the World Cup for anymore?
- How the French pensions débâcle is a warning to us all
- Can air traffic controllers keep calm and carry on — without pay?
- This indicator hasn’t flashed this red since the dot-com bubble
- Who's propping up Russian oil?
- How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock
- When AI is your job interviewer
- A school cellphone ban study, white collar jobs wither, and spooky candy prices
- Are China and India BFFs now?
- Is Obamacare doomed without extended subsidies?
- How Marxism went from philosophy to cudgel
- The new language of AI tech workers
- Amazon's outage, anxious retirees, and LA brings the Heat, too
- Are concert tickets UNDER priced?
- No AI data centers in my backyard!
- Should we ditch quarterly earnings reports?
- Why are veterinarian bills getting so ruff on the wallet?
- Government shutdown fallout, price floors, and AI slop against the machine
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