GameStop rejected, a troubling loan trend, and no to pre-IPO AI shares
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Waylon Wong. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Darren Woods. |
| 0:15.8 | And I'm Adrienne Ma. |
| 0:17.2 | And if all three of us are gathered here today, it can only mean one thing, or maybe it means three things. In fact, indicators. |
| 0:26.3 | Indicators of the week. The week. It is the day of the week when we talk about our favorite numbers from the news. And on today's episode, we're talking about the GameStop and |
| 0:39.0 | eBay romance that never was. People taking out personal loans just to pay the bills. And no, |
| 0:45.9 | you cannot invest directly in Open AI and Anthropic before they've gone public. Don't do that. |
| 0:59.8 | It's Indic indicators of the week. Waylon Wong, you go first. |
| 1:07.8 | My indicator is $55.5 billion. That is what the company GameStop offered to acquire eBay. |
| 1:12.8 | It was an unsolicited offer. GameStop wanted to combine forces into a much bigger company, and it thought that, you know, there could be some benefits from eBay having physical |
| 1:17.3 | locations. But this week, eBay rejected the offer. And I want to read from eBay's statement |
| 1:23.5 | because you guys know, I love romance novels. and eBay's response sounds like what a lady |
| 1:30.7 | in a historical romance would say to like a rake who wanted to marry her. Okay. Wait, like |
| 1:36.8 | the thing you clean up leaves with? No, a rake is like a historical romance term for like an |
| 1:42.5 | incorrigible man. Okay. |
| 1:45.1 | Okay. So eBay said to GameStop that its board, quote, has thoroughly reviewed your proposal and has determined to reject it. |
| 1:53.3 | We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive. |
| 1:59.3 | Wow. |
| 2:00.1 | Okay. |
| 2:00.8 | No ambiguity there. |
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