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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Are we heading into a recession? The Conference Board's Leading Indicator has ten ways to tell.

Recession Indicators, Pt 1

2018-11-1600:09:492

Australia hasn't had a recession in 27 years. Good policy? Or just good luck?

The Lucky Country

2018-11-1500:09:222

The decline in the oil price since the end of October has been stunning in its depth and speed, and follows more than a year of climbing. What changed?

Oil Up, Oil Down

2018-11-1400:08:25

Women pay more than men for many consumer products. Today on the show: Why some economists still think that's a good thing.

The Problem With The Pink Tax

2018-11-1300:09:582

The next global economic downturn could be even harder to reverse than the last one.

Recession Suppression Needs Policy Aggression

2018-11-1200:09:591

The 401(k) retirement plan turned 40 this week! Today on the show, we chronicle the rise of the 401(k), the fall of the pension, and talk to the man who started it all.

The 401(k) Turns 40

2018-11-0900:09:414

How one bank gave a whole new meaning to the term "mobile banking"

All Aboard The Bankmobile!

2018-11-0800:09:092

You may not know it, but companies are silently scoring you... and using that score to figure out how to treat you.

Your Lifetime Value Score

2018-11-0700:09:136

We answer questions from our listeners and issue a couple of mea culpas.

Stacey And Cardiff Answer To The People

2018-11-0600:09:534

Taxes get a bad reputation, but they were central to the formation of representative government, says financial historian William N. Goetzmann.

Ode On A Grecian Tax

2018-11-0500:09:432

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 (27)

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 Gray

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?