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The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today on Indicators of the Week: government iPhone restrictions in China that walloped Apple's market value. Plus plans emerge over how the US government plans to negotiate drug prices. Also, a mass exodus of employees from a top dating app that sheds some light on where the whole working from home debate is.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.0	This is the Indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.5	I'm Whalen Wong.
0:14.5	And I'm Darian Woods, and it is Indicator of the Week.
0:17.8	Yeah!
0:18.8	Indicator of the Week!
0:20.8	Yes it is!
0:22.8	And this week, we are joined by our Planet Money Calling Nick Fountain!
0:27.2	I promise not to yell the whole time!
0:29.5	I'm so excited!
0:31.1	I love this energy.
0:32.1	I love this energy.
0:33.1	Keep it up!
0:34.1	And today we're going to recap our favorite Indigators from a few of this week's Top Headlines.
0:39.0	We'll be talking about a government iPhone band in China, a high stakes negotiation, and
0:44.8	a mass exodus of employees from one of the top dating apps in the country.
0:49.4	We're going to cover all that after this break.
0:56.3	It's Indicators of the Week!
0:57.3	Darian, you're up first this week!
0:59.5	So my Indicator is $200 billion, and that's roughly how much of Apple's market value just
1:05.6	evaporated into thin air.
1:07.9	It happened after the Wall Street Journal reported that government employees in China were
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