NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Whelan Wong.

And I'm Adrian Ma, and it is once again time for indicators of the week.

Joining us today for our weekly up close and personal examination of economic headlines

is our esteemed planet money colleague Mary Child.

Welcome Mary!

Hi, thank you for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

Mary is with us today to talk about numbers from the news,

and this week we are looking at three indicators

from President Biden's proposed economic agenda

for the next year, and you know, if he gets reelected, beyond that.

So he laid out some of these proposals in the State of the Union address he did recently,

and now he's on the campaign trail pitching

into voters and Republicans are also starting to bulk at the price tag for some of these

things. All right but where does Biden stand on spice production on the

desert planet of Arrakis?

What now?

Oh, oh, we have a Dune fan I see.

Have you guys seen it?

No, I haven't.

No.

All right.

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