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This is the indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Darym Woods here with Waylon Wong.

Howdy.

And Adrian Ma.

Hey.

And you know, there is a lot of economic news we're expecting this week. So we wanted to give you an idea of what we're watching. This is the part where I guess where we ask questions like, what's happening with the economy now? How does the past inform the present? Where will the future take us? Or, you know, at the very least,

where will the next several business days take us?

Today on the show, we look ahead

to the week's economic news,

like countries coughing up money for climate change.

How confident are home builders right now?

And we ask whether U.S. manufacturing

really is in decline. That's all after the break.

Okay, we're looking at what's coming up this week in economic indicators. Waylon Wong,

take us away. What I am watching this week is COP 29. This is the United Nations annual climate change conference.

It's being held in Azerbaijan, and we are headed into the second and final week. And I will say

this cop has been a little fraught. I mean, maybe it's always a little fraught, but we just had the

election in the U.S. and Donald Trump has said he's going to pull out of the Paris Agreement.

Yeah, for the second time.

Yeah, I mean, we have seen this film before.

This time around, Argentina might do the same, though.

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