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The Indicator from Planet Money

Job retraining and the brain, DC dining, and Robinhood's sports bet

The Indicator from Planet Money

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4.79.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 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: Job retraining boosts mental health (with more mixed results for romance); the complex picture behind why dinner reservations are down in DC; and the trading platform Robinhood gets into the sports definitely-not-betting game.

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0:00.0

NPR.

0:11.8

This is the indicator from Planet Money.

0:14.0

I'm Whalen Wong here with the amazing Adrienne Ma.

0:17.2

Hello.

0:18.0

And the delightful Dary in Woods.

0:19.9

A pleasure as always.

0:21.5

The Indicator Triumvirate has gathered here on this fantastic Friday because it is the most hello today.

0:27.8

Indicators of the week.

0:29.4

On today's episode, we've got new evidence on job retraining.

0:34.4

Diner numbers going down in D.C.

0:36.0

And the trading platform Robin Hood is offering you a whole new way to lose money.

0:40.6

Where do I sign up?

0:42.2

We'll explain after the break.

0:49.0

Indicators of the week up first, Darien Woods.

0:52.5

My indicator is one in three, one in three injured workers who

0:56.7

avoided depression because they went through retraining. That's according to this working

1:01.0

paper out this week through the National Bureau of Economic Research. Okay, so that sounds like a

1:05.7

pretty hopeful result. It's very good. This paper looked at people who had been injured badly in Denmark, enough to

1:12.4

make them lose earnings. And, you know, injuring yourself this way is terrible, both your physical

1:17.8

health, but also your mental health. The authors find that these people are more likely to take

1:23.0

antidepressants. That all tracks. And the authors wanted to quantify what exactly reskilling did for mental

1:29.1

health. So the way things work in Denmark is that some diplomas or vocational degrees allow you to

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