Chips up, rent down, and are people really skimping on holiday gifts?

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

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

On today’s episode: A big goshDRAM memory problem, a holiday spending mystery, and apartment rental prices … decline?!

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:14.0	I'm Dary in Woods.
0:15.0	I'm Waylon Wong.
0:16.0	And joining us today is Jeff Grow all the way from Planet Money.
0:20.0	Hello, Earthlings. Hi, Jeff.
0:21.6	Good to see you.
0:23.6	You have picked an ideal time to glow with the flow as we say.
0:27.6	Oh my God.
0:28.6	Sorry.
0:29.6	Glow like whoa.
0:31.6	Because today is Indicators of the Week.
0:38.0	Yay!
0:39.6	I'm the only one who cheered, and nobody clapped.
0:41.8	It was just me.
0:42.9	Please clap.
0:44.2	They will clap after they hear the lineup of today's show.
0:46.7	We have...
0:47.4	Big drama in the market for computer chips.
0:49.6	There's a little mystery going on with holiday shopping.
0:52.4	And some possible holiday cheer for apartment renters.
0:56.3	That's after the break.
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