Endless shrimp and other indicators
The Indicator from Planet Money
NPR
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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Adrian Ma. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Darien Woods. Today we're joined by the great Erica Barras of Planet Money. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome America. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:22.0 | Erica, it is awesome to have you, especially on the most special days of indicator days, |
| 0:27.6 | indicators of the week day. |
| 0:29.4 | That's right. Today we are going to bring you three insights about the economy from this week. |
| 0:34.0 | We're looking at whether or not inflation is dead, |
| 0:37.5 | whether all our labor data has been wrong, |
| 0:40.5 | and a strange kind of policy with shrimp at Red Lobster. |
| 0:45.0 | Yes, those are real words I just said. |
| 0:48.0 | Today, you're going to get all the indicators you can eat. |
| 0:52.0 | That's coming up after the break. But really it's |
| 0:56.0 | not all you can eat. It'll just be three. If three is the maximum you can eat. |
| 0:59.4 | It's a three course meal. |
| 1:02.4 | Darian Woods, you're first up for indicators of the week. |
| 1:07.0 | All right, so my... |
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