The Indicator from Planet Money Podcast Transcripts
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Latest The Indicator from Planet Money transcripts
The case for sharing your salary
October 21, 2026
Adrian Ma (0:01)
NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money. I'm Adrian Ma.
Ricky Mulvey (0:08)
And I'm Ricky Mulvey.
Adrian Ma (0:10)
And Ricky, if I asked you what class you consider yourself, like are you upper class, working class, or middle class, what would you say?
- The case for sharing your salary
- The gamble of trying to inflate away debt
- Will AI take my job? Ask an economist!
- Supercore inflation, Bumble valuation and Pooh's repatriation
- How did political campaigns get so expensive?
- A rebate runaround, a car rental rip-off and … roaches?!
- How did we get a Nobel Prize in economics?
- The echo of the bison (Encore)
- SNAP strains, youth baseball's class divide, and Meta's bug bounty
- The chilling effect of ICE in hospitals
- One economist's answer to data center anxiety
- Inside Norway's sovereign wealth fund dilemma to divest from Israel
- The proper etiquette of the Venmo nudge
- Can we make Social Security better for blue-collar workers?
- New college degrees designed to job-proof graduates
- Is investing in sports worth it for universities?
- What does every business need but not every industry has?
- How the rich make money by losing money
- Unaffordability index: Rent, GLP-1s, Obamacare
- What Doordash, Dell and Palantir all have in common
- Why are used cars priced like new cars?
- How Hemp-THC businesses are bracing for a near total ban
- OpenAI's waiting game, gas pump pain, and severe sulfur strain!
- Strait talk: Why the oil crisis is getting worse
- How the bond market is handling AI risks
- How much safer do Flock cameras make us?
- A Beautiful Bill, Mamdani's Market, and Stock Subscriptions
- Bessent's yen bet, cold Argentine data centers set, and the summer box office net
- Are small town colleges going extinct?
- Let's play ... Who Wants To Be a Bank!
- Canada fights tariffs with tariffs
- Are job hoppers better at their jobs?
- Does Planet Money’s game pass the shelf test? We go undercover to find out
- For a lot of Gen Z, gambling is investing
- A Treasury showdown with the bond market
- How ICE arrests are creating 'economies of fear'
- The teacher pay penalty, Meta's major settlement, and a footwear flop
- Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its big break
- What Mark Cuban REALLY thinks of Medicare for All
- Medicare for All is not Medicare for All
- Could politics put your city's funding at risk?
- EV sales slow, US Treasury yields grow, 'Niu Lai' has impressive box office mojo
- Is bankruptcy really all that bad?
- Have a bad manager? Science explains why.
- Trump versus Capital One
- Did you know companies can vote in Delaware?
- Retiree benefits bump, credit repayment slump, and a dating app in the dumps
- C is for C-shaped economy
- Consumers are mad as hell and aren't gonna take it anymore
- Borrowing money to invest! What could go wrong?
- Why is Trump paying to stop wind farms?
- I'm just here for the health benefits
- Following the Chipotle playbook for the cyclospora crisis
- How ending TPS is squeezing workers, businesses and (soon) consumers
- Mamdani markets, America bets, Gen Z drinks
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