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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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Jared Bernstein has a shortlist of economic ideas that he thinks his colleagues have been getting wrong for decades.
5Introducing a new series: Finance Fridays With Mary!
The price of gold is at a six-year high and gold bugs say it's the safest place to put your money in uncertain times. But is it actually a good investment?
The yield curve is inverted! We answer a few questions we have gotten from our listeners about our beloved recession predicting indicator.
About 44 million people owe nearly 1.5 trillion dollars in student loans all together. But for some people — like our producer Darius Rafieyan — paying them requires some mental adjustments.
GIPHY makes those viral mini-videos that people use to color their texts and emails. They're super popular, but they're free. So how does GIPHY plan to make money?
The computers that mine Bitcoin use a lot of electricity. That's created some unique arbitrage opportunities in different parts of the world. And causing governments some concern.
Japan's worker shortage has gotten so bad it's forced some companies to declare bankruptcy. The solution? Telling workers to work less.
One of the biggest international banks--Deutsche Bank--is laying off 18,000 workers and cutting costs to try and save itself from going under. How did things get so bad?
Last week's California quakes have reinforced fears of "the big one", the high-magnitude trembler that seismologists say is inevitable. How ready is the city of Los Angeles?
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Lily Pettinato
Thanks for telling me about The Big One podcast! I live in LA and this was really helpful. Trying to look up about this online few years back was more confusing. I love how they worked to give a good picture of the scenario that we are likely to experience when the big one hits. Great timing too, since it on everyone's mind in LA right now.
Joshua Davis
ready for my totally unoriginal quip, wait for it "what a douchebank"
Tony Zac
let's not encourage making babies in office time. lol
Jesse Therien
The battle "literally" came to your doorstep?
Harley
why not just call them illegal immigrants, considering that's exactly what they are? It seems like you're intentionally using dishonest terms to pretend it's just dumb racist Americans hating on poor foreign families looking to start a new life here.
Harley
"Everyone should have just dropped everything and focused on food" "I was cheering for the Night King. I was irritated enough at this setting. You know, clearly they did not prepare enough food for winter, they clearly do not deserve to survive this." Uh...? what did Stacy and this guy think Sansa Stark was doing this whole time? Sitting on her hands? 😂 She DID get supplies.
D_Range 211
Dang... P.M. please use spoiler alerts
Ricardo Pereira
D_Range 211 Agree
Steve Davis
interesting episode. never thought of these facts.
Mike Lukas
I would have liked to hear about the value of child care. They really portrayed working more as being only a good thing and didn't mention anything about children seeing their parents less.
Jason Salvo
Scarlet Widow? No one ever messes up the male Avenger names. Though, now I want to see some character designs for that.
Aidan Gardiner
Jason Salvo Lol subconscious implicit bias in an episode about a gender gap. that's too serendipitous
Remy
I was wondering what was happening with several of my NPR podcasts!
Andi-Roo Libecap
Remy Your comment was helpful because I didn't realize the problem was "just" NPR podcasts! I thought it was like castbox or something. THIS IS WHY I DO READ THE COMMENTS! {Thanks, Remy!}
Kiar Holland
I would have liked to hear the hours worked, broken down by profession. I know on avg men work about 52 mins more a day but haven't seen it broken down in fields.
Aidan Gardiner
I can't imagine taking a cab to travel 2 miles in 22 minutes. Any alternative mode of transport seems more efficient
Harley
introverts aren't quiet or shy. the psychological definition is introverts being more energized from alone time and quiet.
Antonio Andrade
have you seen the YouTube videos about full of food? this is something new. Well, this is due to two factors: 10% of the population is gone and with USD 3$ minimum wage a month! there is no change to afford to buy food and play for water, electricity, gasoline, etc... And that my friends, it is an indicator
Joshua Davis
thank you
Antonio Andrade
wow, thanks for sharing that's going on at Venezuela
Aidan Gardiner
there's plenty of proof that "other variables" are responsible for the wage gap. there's little evidence that "discrimination" is responsible for the wage gap, don't just throw it out there as fact when research can't prove it. listen to the freakonomics episode: "what Uber can teach us about the gender wage gap"
Lee Greathouse
I'm a male social worker and I've always worked in a female dominated environment. It's been a frequent topic of conversation in my office, but as one of 10 men in an office of 200 people it's something I've never felt comfortable talking about and it definitely creates an uncomfortable culture for those in the minority; I'm sure it's the same for women in male dominated environments.
Cory Lutz
Forget spotify, I use castbox and google pkay. Spotify took too long to join the podcast world. Am I right?