NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Darren Woods and joining me today are

Planet Money reporters and hosts with the most, Erica Beres and Mary Charles.

So happy to be here. Hello. Happy to have you and listening. and

listen you should know that this super team of super people assembling can only mean one thing

can anyone in this room guess what it is?

I know I know so I hit theer first, I hit the buzzer first, it's indicators of the week.

But yes, it is our glorious turn to bring you three snapshots of what is going on in the global economy.

That's right on today's episode, super indicators what one regional banks' super

shakiness means for the wider economy, Mexican goods, super surging,

and of course, the Super Bowl.

Well, you know, the fun part, the commercials.

The good part, yeah. Yeah.

Okay, indicators of the week, Mary, tee us off.

What is your super interesting indicator of the week? Thank you for the compliments honored to go first. My

indicator of the week is four hundred and seventy five billion dollars. That is how much the

US imported in goods from Mexico last year, but the wild part of this is that is about 48 billion dollars more than we imported from China.

Oh, how the turn tables turn.

It's very surprising, frankly.

This is the first time in about 20 years that this has happened.

For the last two decades we have always imported more from China,

but last year our imports from China dropped 20%.

That is wild, what is happening here, what's going on?

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