A salary to be grateful for, and other Thanksgiving indicators

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It's an Indicator Friendsgiving! You're not alone in feeling the news has been awfully grim this year. So we're taking a collective breath and sitting down at the table to find some economic indicators to be thankful for. That includes an end to global shipping turmoil, the green-blue bubble détente and a palatable salary.

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0:00.0	NPR. Adrian, Darien, you guys hungry? It is time for our indicator friends giving dinner.
0:19.0	Ah, yeah.
0:20.0	It looks amazing, Whelan. Wait, is that a meat alternative celebration loaf?
0:25.6	Of course it is. We gotta have something for our resident vegetarian.
0:30.3	I appreciate it.
0:31.3	Hey Whelan, can you pass the cranberry sauce?
0:33.0	Yeah, you want the canned one with the riches or the chunky homemade one in the fancy crystal dish.
0:38.0	Come on, is that even a question?
0:41.0	Give me the canned stuff.
0:42.0	Yeah. Oh, give me the can stuff. Yeah.
0:44.0	Oh my gosh.
0:46.0	Delicious.
0:47.0	Well look, before we start, I thought maybe we could do the thing
0:51.0	and go around and say what we're all grateful for.
0:54.3	Okay, you mean like a indicators of the week but Thanksgiving edition?
0:59.5	Ooh, I think that's a great idea because you know there's been a lot of tough news this year
1:04.5	but there are some economic bright spots like the soft landing we might be seeing
1:10.0	right now with low unemployment and lower inflation? That's true and we talk every
1:14.8	year about the the price of a classic Thanksgiving dinner this year it's actually
1:18.5	four and a half percent cheaper than last year so almost everything on this table is a little less expensive than it
1:24.5	used to be. That's right and as of this morning I guess the open AI staff is
1:28.5	thankful to have Sam Altman back as CEO, at least for now.
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