Actors back. Pandas gone. WeBankrupt.
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The once-popular co-working company WeWork has filed for bankruptcy.
Also, three pandas departed the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. as China repatriates the cuddly animals.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Waylon Wong here with Adrian Ma. |
| 0:16.0 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Planet Money's Alexi Horowitz Gazi. |
| 0:20.0 | What up indicators? Let's go. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to Indicators of the Week. What up indicators? Let's go. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to indicators of the week. |
| 0:24.4 | Today we are bringing you three insights from the global economy. |
| 0:29.9 | The four month standoff between actors and Hollywood studios may have finally come to an end. |
| 0:35.2 | The once popular co-working company, We Work, is filing for bankruptcy, and the U.S. is saving some |
| 0:40.4 | money in zookeeping after shipping three pandas to China. |
| 0:44.0 | That budgetary news you can use and more coming up after the break. Indicators |
| 0:57.0 | Indicators, you're up first. All right, my indicator this week is $1 billion |
| 1:00.0 | plus. |
| 1:02.0 | Plus. Yeah, that's right. That is the estimated value of the tentative |
| 1:06.1 | deal reached earlier this week between SAG Aftra, which is the union that |
| 1:10.2 | represents film and TV actors, and the big Hollywood studios and |
| 1:14.5 | streamers. New and improved billion dollars. Billion dollars plus. It could be |
| 1:19.2 | anything. Could be a private jet in there. I don't know. The reason we don't know is because the exact details |
| 1:25.1 | of this deal haven't been released yet. |
| 1:26.6 | Billion plus is just how SAG after President Fran Dresher. |
| 1:30.2 | That's how she put it in a celebratory Instagram post. |
| 1:33.2 | And now, this tentative deal marks the tentative end of the longest strike in SAGAFRA's 90-year history, |
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