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
Chips up, rent down, and are people really skimping on holiday gifts? (05.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy
- How Japan’s new prime minister is jolting markets
- What would it mean to actually refund the tariffs?
- Why the US chose not to have a passenger train system like Europe
- Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help
- Who's financing Meta's massive AI data center?
- Who’s buying all the beef?
- Pay transparency. The WhatsApp and Instagram decision. Our beef with screwworms.
- How to avoid scammers after a natural disaster
- Looking for love in the auto supply chain
- How to make switching jobs not terrifying
- Why you overpaid at that online auction
- 50-year mortgages, falling real wages, and doing your rideshare due diligence
- 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?
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