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The Indicator from Planet Money

Indicators of the Week: IPOs, ETFs, GHGs

The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR

Business

4.79.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's Indicators of the Week! The U.S. is using a lot more coal for electricity, the first Bitcoin ETF is finally here, and WeWork officially debuted on the New York Stock Exchange.

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0:00.0

NPR.

0:07.0

This is the indicator from Planet Money.

0:14.2

I'm Stacey Vanick Smith and I am here as I am every Friday with Mr. Adrienne Ma and Mr.

0:19.1

Daryian Woods.

0:20.1

Hello, hello.

0:21.1

Good to be here.

0:22.1

Hello.

0:23.1

And we are gathered here, of course, because it is time for indicators of the week.

0:28.8

I think, I mean, you made it feel special when you said we're gathered here.

0:31.7

It's like it felt like we are gathered here.

0:35.2

Like I'm about to marry someone or something.

0:38.8

The statistical sacrament.

0:40.5

I love the sacrament of statistics.

0:42.7

The rights and rituals of the indigate of the wake.

0:44.8

That's what it is.

0:45.8

Yes.

0:46.8

So today's indicators include coal.

0:48.3

We are burning a lot of it, spoiler alert.

0:50.5

Cryptocurrency exchange traded fund.

0:52.8

We're more exciting than description might sound.

0:55.7

And we work.

0:57.6

It's back.

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