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The Indicator from Planet Money — 363 episodes
Petty! Econ! Grievances!
Three beefs: U.S. and Brazil, Taco Bell and liability, Waymo and trial lawyers
Can Paramount "gift" its way past the FCC?
Can Y’all Street outflank Wall Street?
Tale of Two Cities
Why doesn't the US have better sunscreen?
New NPR Series: "We Keep Us Safe" from the Embedded podcast
The Strait of Hormuz no-fee, China cuts down on pollution and IMAX's economic Odyssey
Why the Pope wants to disarm AI
Why your neighbor might be paying less for their car
Can the internet survive AI summaries?
Young people aren’t paying their car loans. We can help.
SK Hynix to the moon, Gen-Z to their rooms, and Connecticut tax reform looms
Why Google fell behind in the AI race
Cracking down on egg prices
We're in a renter's market (believe it or not)
Why the US is losing the drone war
Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side
Does the new Fed chair care about jobs?
Why Trump wants to rip up his own trade deal
What Iran teaches us about why wars start
What you should know about your student loans
GLP-1 and women, the AI office boom, and RTO: CEO ego?
AI is pumping out books. Are they any good?
How stock options made him an overnight millionaire
Why the $250 bill would be good … For criminals!
An urban planner, infinite scroll, and … what is a public good?
How your phone keeps you scrolling ... even when you want to stop
Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices?
Is gambling the reason we have pro sports?
Your American Dream is pending review
Community colleges are kind of underrated
Inflation is bad, work from home sad, FIFA World Cup tix NOT deal to be had
The SpaceX IPO drama explained
Should we tax AI?
U OK, UK?
The fired labor economist who couldn't get unemployment
Who should new grads boo more? AI or remote work?
Equinomics, bag fees, and leftover campaign dollars
Can the internet be reclaimed from Big Tech?
Why boardinghouses could make a comeback
How AI is clogging the courtroom
Obsession, the most fun job in China, and a new green card policy
Saudi’s LIV golf exit is just the start
What the movies teach us about recessions, memestocks and gold
Who’s behind that shell company? We may never know
Game of 'roids, trader Trump, and searching for Shakira's tax residence
So ... how long until these oil prices get REALLY bad
It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop
Why GLP-1s aren't lowering employers' costs
Taiwan arms sales, Board of Trade, and Chinamaxxing
GameStop rejected, a troubling loan trend, and no to pre-IPO AI shares
How Trump's central bank beef could hurt the economy
Should NATO be pay-to-protect?
Prediction markets are threatening national security. Who's gonna fix it?
The new AI model that could steal your life savings
Which jobs are future-proofed?
Trump crypto, Trump ballroom and Trump drones
When will the Iran war hit food prices?
How your bank account might predict dementia
How taxing the wealthy could work
Polymarket bots, lithium found: lots!, marathon shoe thoughts
The UAE wants a dollar lifeline
The new economic arms race
Jan. 6ers already got pardoned. Will they get their money back too?
Premium and affordable products are having a moment
The Devil Wears Prada Index, SNAP, and flight cancellations
How to get your tariff cash back
The Iran war puts the petrodollar regime to the test
Corporate landlords aren't the real villain
Is anyone gonna do anything about these Iran War trades?
Fed chair, health care, and AI shoe repair
Fixing the oil crisis might not fix the Persian Gulf
Think the oil shock is bad in the US? Look here
How the workplace helps you win Survivor
Can you really do what you love?
Class myths, an influx of e-ships, and pricey Olympics tix!
Where AI data centers are reducing power bills
How are drivers riding out the gas crisis?
Why infinite scroll's inventor wants to kill his creation
Is the economy red, orange, yellow or green?
Jobs that new college grads are and are not landing
Greetings from: Our favorite public goods
Why Pokémon cards are growing faster than your retirement account
Who's afraid of private credit?
Do school lunches really need an overhaul?
The US loses tech hires, sayonora to Sora, and Afroman's win
Tracing the tax that's supposed to fund TSA
Your next flight doesn't have to be so expensive. Here's why
Why hasn't the Russian economy collapsed?
The multimillion dollar Saturday Night Live UK gamble
Trump and truckers, Poland prospers, and a booming ant biz
How Iran is wasting American resources
How much is the Iran war costing us?
A trucker, a farmer, and an entrepreneur walk into a global supply shock
Can anything save the news biz?
A lot of gas trapped, oil reserves tapped, and Live Nation gets a (tiny) cap
Should colleges accept money from bad people?
The shadowy world of merchant cash advances
Will Trump’s shipping insurance plan work?
No healthcare premiums? In this economy?! Here's how.
Why are fewer Americans working the night shift?
Want a 2.5% mortgage? Buy it.
The anxiety rattling China’s youth
Why Paramount went looney tunes for Warner Bros.
Should the families of organ donors be compensated?
ICE is bad for business, heat is bad for coffee, and sci-fi is bad for markets
How your favorite fish sticks might be funding Russia's war
What an Epstein recording reveals about how elites get jobs
Do traders who place big bets make big money?
Why there are roving rotisserie chicken mobs
Can I get my tariff money back now?
Retirement luck, Hassett hassles the Fed, and boneless chicken in ... court?
Why this rural town wants an ICE facility
How well are ICE's 12,000 new officers being trained?
How Iran's flagging economy inflamed its protests
Jobs numbers, immigrants in healthcare, and ... Jesus Christ?
What it costs to be an elite figure skater like the 'Quad God'
What is going on with gold and silver?
The boxed meal helping Americans stay on budget
Are we in an economic 'doom loop'?
Just how bad are these job numbers?
How college sports juiced Olympic development
Warming your house the green way just got more expensive
All these data centers are gonna fry my electric bill … right?
America's next top Fed Chair
A huge EU-India deal, Heated Rivalry, and a hefty $200k to Olympians
Hawaii’s worker shortage goes NUTS
Why isn’t corporate America standing up to Trump?
Can Europe sell America?
How Pakistan is revving up a fight against tax dodgers
Davos drama, credit card caps and tariff truths
How beef climbed to the top of the food pyramid
Is Greenland really an untapped land of riches?
Are U.S. defense contractors lavishing their investors too much?
ICE influencers, a world-record trade surplus, and the moon goes nuclear
Why Trump resurrected the Monroe Doctrine
Can a good story change economic reality?
One Fed battle after another
How far can philanthropy go to fill government gaps?
How AI is shrinking the job market for teens
Venezuela didn't steal U.S. oil. Here's what happened
Can you trust you're getting the same grocery prices as someone else?
How cocaine smuggling through Latin America really works
Why China pulled the plug on Japan
Venezuela’s economic descent (Updated)
We resolve to watch these 2026 indicators
Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore (Encore)
Gilded Age 2.0? (Encore)
The cautionary tale of a recovering day trading addict (Encore)
The economic challenges facing men without college degrees
The secret to Nintendo's success (Encore)
Why every A-lister also has a side hustle (Encore)
The worst year of Warren Buffett’s career
The spite acquisition that launched Warren Buffett
Tariffs. Consumer sentiment. Cape Ratio. Pick The Indicator of The Year!
Catching up with a fired federal worker, a shrimper and a fraudster
The ghosts of Obamacare past, present and future
Will new loan limits lower the cost of grad school?
Can American cities grow AND stay affordable?
Nvidia chips for China, frozen Russian funds, and a lot of self-checkout stealing
How to make $35 trillion ... disappear
Bitcoin miners are betting on AI over crypto
How a former Fed vice chair would approach rate cuts
Take a penny, leave a penny, get rid of the penny
Chips up, rent down, and are people really skimping on holiday gifts?
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?
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
OpenAI's deals are looking a little frothy
Inside the growing industry to defend schools from mass shootings
Why do we live in unusually innovative times?
Scam compounds, sewing patterns and stolen dimes
How AI might mess with financial markets
When cartels start to diversify
What’s supercharging data breaches?
Fighting AI with AI
Vice Series: The evolving business of crime
Why Americans don't want to move for jobs anymore
How close is the US to crony capitalism?
Why is everyone buying gold?
We're about to lose a lot of foreign STEM workers
What media consolidation means for free speech
Argentina's bailout, a new way to cool data centers, and a cold holiday hiring season
No, your doctor isn't getting rich off of vaccines
Why are so many public schools closing?
Should 'surveillance pricing' be banned?
Can LA host a 'car-free' Olympics?
The Fed cuts rates, America's FICO dips, and forever ends for sweepstakes winners
Why "free" public education doesn't always include school supplies
The crypto market is hot. But is it an illusion?
Why an aggressive rate cut could backfire on Trump
Why beef prices are so high
ICE raids, cooling on capitalism, and a Murdoch settlement
We read your mail on AI-proof jobs and how to fix crime labs
Can shareholders influence Elon Musk's trillion dollar pay package?
The cost of saving a species
Teamwork actually does make the dream work
Why moms are leaving their paid jobs
How much is AI actually affecting the workforce?
So long, farewell, super cheap tariff-free shopping
Inside the illegal vape boom
AI creeps in, KATSEYE milkshakes, and China says “Zaijian!” to US soybeans
What olive oil tells us about Trump's tariffs
Trump's unprecedented attack on the Fed
Three ways companies are getting around tariffs
Can you copyright artwork made using AI?
Job retraining and the brain, DC dining, and Robinhood's sports bet
What happens when railroads get hitched
Cobalt-free batteries reign in Chinese EVs. Why not the US?
How algorithms are changing the way we speak
Three innovations pushing the medical field forward
The nepo baby premium, frothing markets, and Apple vs. Apples
Why every A-lister also has a side hustle
Why Trump's spending bill could close your grocery store
The arduous system for getting aid into Gaza
What we're reading on the beach this summer
More for Palantir, less for mRNA, and a disaster database redemption arc
The legal case for — and against — Trump's tariffs
What you need to know about the jobs report revisions
Can we still trust the monthly jobs report? (Update)
What really goes on at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Update)
How you're using AI at work
Why the Fed could lose $1.5 trillion
The risk of private equity in your 401(k)
The hottest multilateral club doesn't include the US
A baby bonds bonanza
Nigeria notches new highs, Magic gathers millions, and crypto climbs
How to beach on a budget
When Uncle Sam owned banks and factories
Lunch with the man who coined TACO
Your tinned fish obsession is helping resurrect a lost industry
Bonus episode: The Indicator plays... movie business trivia!
Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media
Are you not entertained ... by our movie-related indicators?
When is cosplay a crime?
The story of China and Hollywood's big-screen romance
Why aren't filmmakers shooting in LA?
Before La La Land, there was Fort Lee, New Jersey
Red tape indicators: sports betting, R&D and click-to-cancel
Could Meta do more to protect us from cyber scams?
Can you afford to evacuate ahead of a disaster?
Will the tax cuts pay for themselves?
Why can't we insure trees?
One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away (EXTENDED VERSION)
How ICE crackdowns are affecting the workforce
Tech layoffs, recession pop and more listener questions answered
We're nearing 'peak population.' These economists are worried.
Can Starlink stay ahead in satellite internet?
Babies v climate change; AI v IP; bonds v world
We're gonna need a bigger boat-building industry
One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away
Will Iran block the Strait of Hormuz?
You told us how tariffs are affecting you
SALT-n-pessimism
Why the 30-year bond matters
Mixing family business with US trade policy in Vietnam
The secret to Nintendo's success
Trump's parade, FEMA phase out, and Warner Bros. Discovery divorces ... itself?
The hidden costs of healthcare churn
The secret tariff-free zone
What's a revenge tax?
How doctors helped tank universal health care
Why U.S. workers keep getting more productive
Gilded Age 2.0?
An indicator lost: big disaster costs
Who should get mom's ring?
Why Gen Z is feeling 'money dysmorphia'
Let's 'TACO' 'bout General Motors gassing up V-8s and golden shares
Are Trump's trade deals the real deal?
Why are college coaches paid so much?
How to build abundantly
The dawn of search engines
Target, Klarna and Sesame Street's new addy
How Trump is making coin from $TRUMP coin
The old trade war that brought foreign carmakers to the U.S.
The rise of the credit card airport lounge
The Art of the deal ft. Beyoncé
Brain-controlled iPhones, a Japanese asset buy-a-thon, and Trump tax cut debt
Bond market nightmares
What we misunderstand about gun violence
A brief history of NPR funding
It's actually really hard to make a robot, guys
Prepping for a rainy day and higher used car prices
It's hard out there for a Fed chair
Why do shrimpers like tariffs?
What do farmers do in a trade war?
Trump's cuts come for food banks
American science brain drain
How much international students matter to the economy
How stable is Stablecoin?
Is the US pushing countries towards China?
When do boycotts work?
Student loans are back, US travel is whack, and, AI, please, step back
Who's advising Trump on trade?
Dealmaker Don v. Tariff Man Trump
China's trade war perspective
A trap-loving DJ takes on economics
Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)
Did Trump enable insider trading?
The spat over VAT
How much is a weather forecast worth? (Update)
IRS information sharing, bonds bust, and a chorebot future
What keeps a Fed president up at night
What happens when an economist becomes prime minister?
What's so bad about a trade deficit?
Tariffied! We check in on businesses
How states are scooping up federal workers
Why the great vinyl shortage is over
What $10 billion in data centers actually gets you
Should we vote for all judges?
Overly Friendly Emails and other marketing pet peeves
Missing taxes, spiking copper and Napster's re-re-rebirth
How nonprofits get cash from your clunker
Can Europe stand without the US?
How's ... everybody doing?
How specialization can lead to burn-out
A new-ish gold rush and other indicators
What's this about a crypto reserve?
Why there's no referee for the trade war
What might save China's economy
Why is the federal government still killing coyotes?
Southwest surprises, tariff guac shock, and fraud flourishes
How many times can you say uncertainty in one economic report?
The stock market is down, but you don't need to be
Can you take government spending out of GDP?
What Bad Bunny teaches us about Puerto Rican tax law
Can ... we still trust the monthly jobs report?
What to make of the Ukraine minerals deal
Is the Panama Canal a rip-off?
Can the Federal Reserve stay independent?
How tourist destinations recover after terrorism
Slender Starbucks, Medicaid at risk, and the gold card visa