Amazon's outage, anxious retirees, and LA brings the Heat, too

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

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It’s … Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.

On today’s episode: the Amazon global internet outage, Americans plan to siphon their Social Security checks early, and Mann, we love some Heat 2.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:11.6	This is the Indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.8	I'm Waylon Wong here with my co-host, Adrienne Ma.
0:17.3	Hello.
0:18.0	And rounding out the Indicator's happy trio fellow co-hoster with the Moster, Darien Woods.
0:23.8	A pleasure, as always, to be in this economy explaining tripod.
0:28.6	I think you've just invented a new word, by the way, Moster?
0:31.3	Uh, yeah.
0:32.6	Look at me.
0:33.5	Inventing words here on Indicators of the Week.
0:36.2	Oh, I spoiled it.
0:37.0	Indicators of the week.
0:38.2	That's what we're doing.
0:41.7	That's right.
0:42.6	We have looked at interesting numbers in the news this week, and we are here to tell you all about them.
0:48.3	On today's episode...
0:49.7	We have the global internet outage.
0:52.1	Americans chomping at the bit for social security checks.
0:55.5	And don't let yourself get attached to anything you're not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
1:02.7	After the break.
1:08.5	My indicator is 30%. That's how much of the internet across the globe is hosted by Amazon Web Services, according to the analytics company HG Insights.
1:18.6	And that becomes a problem when Amazon Web Services goes down.
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