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Today on the show, hosts from Planet Money and The Indicator debate the economic indicators of this year and next year.First up, we try to identify th...
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Today on the show, we have two episodes from our daily podcast, The Indicator, about things we spend a lot of time thinking about this time of year: f...
Would you say that you and your family are better off or worse off, financially, than you were a year ago? Do you think in 12 months we'll have good t...
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Some of the most influential and beloved novels of the last few years have been about money, finance, and the global economy. Some overtly so, others...
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When best-selling thriller writer Douglas Preston began playing around with OpenAI's new chatbot, ChatGPT, he was, at first, impressed. But then he re...
