Can China save its economy - and ours?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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What's up with China's GDP, what's down with China's population numbers, and what Marvel's return tells us. Indicators from China to bring in the Lunar New Year. For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:09.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.7	I'm Whalen Wong, here with Daring Woods and Adrian Ma.
0:18.2	Hey!
0:19.2	And it is time for indicators of the week.
0:22.8	And up, bumpin' on.
0:25.1	And today I brought something special for you guys.
0:27.5	Wow, okay.
0:28.5	What do we have?
0:29.5	It's a red envelope.
0:31.1	Thank you.
0:32.1	Kong Hei Fat Chai.
0:34.5	So you've pulled out a lucky red envelope.
0:37.7	And well, I think I know why, but why don't you tell the people?
0:40.5	Well, it is lunar new year this weekend.
0:43.3	And so a tradition for Chinese New Year is to hand out these red envelopes with cash
0:49.7	to give us gifts to people.
0:51.5	Lucky money, which begs the question Whalen, how much did you get us?
0:56.0	Let me see what's inside.
0:57.7	Oh, it's empty.
0:59.5	Oh, okay.
1:00.5	How about instead of cash, I bring you stories about the world's second largest economy,
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