The Indicator from Planet Money

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A little show about big ideas. From the people who make Planet Money, The Indicator helps you make sense of what's happening today. It's a quick hit of insight into work, business, the economy, and everything else. Listen weekday afternoons.

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We armed The Indicator's producers with your questions, and they unleashed them on a roomful of economists at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association.

What Keeps Economists Up At Night? And Other Stuff

2019-01-1800:09:563

John Clifton "Jack" Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group, passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Today we look back at his life and career.

R.I.P. Jack Bogle, Democratizer Of Investing

2019-01-1700:09:533

Interest rates are higher, global growth is slowing, and the government is at an impasse. But there are also reasons for near-term optimism about the U.S. economy.

The Extremely Cautious Case For Extremely Mild Optimism

2019-01-1600:09:562

When it came to the female labor force participation rate, America used to lead the world. But we've fallen behind. Today on the show: what happened?

Working Women: Why The U.S. Is Behind

2019-01-1500:09:465

Which economic indicators do we pay too much attention to? Not enough? It's Overrated/Underrated: Economic Indicator edition

10,000 Economists Walk Into A Bar

2019-01-1400:09:454

The U.S. partial government shutdown is on track to be the longest in history. Whatever its political consequences, the economic costs to the private sector will increase the longer it lasts.

Shutdown Economics

2019-01-1100:09:573

Today on The Indicator: an update on the trade spat between China and the U.S.

U.S.-China Trade: Where Are We Now?

2019-01-1000:09:462

Some signals on the economic dashboard are warning we could be heading for a downturn within a couple of years. Are we ready to fight off a recession?

Are We Ready For A Recession?

2019-01-0900:09:596

2018 was one of the most volatile stock market years on record. And the market continues volatile today. But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Don't Fear The Fear Index

2019-01-0800:09:453

The Fed chair and his two predecessors speak at a big conference about Friday's stellar jobs report, and why, despite what the Phillips Curve might predict, they're not too worried about inflation

Jobs, Inflation And The Phillips Curve

2019-01-0700:09:543

Bill Slikkerveer

Defined Benefits plans are expensive usually because Companies would use unrealistic earnings assumptions as well as using discount rates that were high driving the Liability lower. Finally under Federal law Companies are only required to fund the "minimum" which depending on the above assumptions generally resulted in a zero or close to zero required contribution. If this is done over many years, it is almost a certainty the Plan will be underfunded. My experience in this comes as a Union Treasurer for a Union at a major airline that eventually made a trip through Bankruptcy and attempted to Terminate the Plan unsuccessfully. Other airline pensions we're not so fortunate.

Nov 10th

Comments (29)

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Jan 12th

G Scott

the workplace ghosting thing is definitely in full effect in this job market. Seen many of my fellow coworkers do this over the past 2yrs

Dec 20th

Abhishek Banerjee

Still not easy to switch jobs

Nov 16th

Jason D'Cruz

good episode

Nov 1st

Ben Davis

Sounds like a scripted interview to me.

Erin Maloney

Thoroughly enjoying this podcast. Want to clarify from Tears for Sears podcast that Amazon cannot get products everywhere in the US in 2 days. Living in a small city of 35,000 it takes 4-5 days for us to get Amazon packages.

Oct 25th

Zach G

10/10 for the title alone

Oct 19th

China and trust 😂

Oct 18th

Howard Haynes

Have you guys seen the website www.mylife.com 🤔

Oct 17th

ProudtoDeath

vbbb

Oct 11th

Eternity

Stop the annoying sound effects

Sep 7th

derpin'

I lost my job to a woman. They told me they could save a lot by hiring her over keeping me. WE NEED EQUAL PROTECTION AGAINST WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE NOW!!!

Sep 4th

Christina Coleman

derpin' against? it sounds like the pay gap actually ELIMINATED your job because they knew they could offer a woman less money for the same/better work. wage equality benefits both men & women, not to mention our children!

Nov 2nd

Mike Lukas

The pay gap doesn't exist as it's portrayed if you actually look at the numbers.

Aug 31st

Christina Coleman If you want an answer or an actual discussion (which I expect you don't) a condescending tone like that isn't going to get you there.

Nov 8th

Mike Lukas oh well then enlightened one, care to show us the numbers?