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The Indicator from Planet Money

Know your economeme

The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR

Business

4.79.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

From the depths of econ twitter straight to your podcast feed – this is economemes. Our guests bring us their favorite economic memes and explain what they mean. Can econ be funny? Only you can decide!

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0:00.0

NPR.

0:12.3

Here on the indicator, we've always believed that economics can be fun.

0:16.8

But can economics also be like, haha, funny?

0:21.6

That is the question we are going to put to the test today because we're taking the day

0:25.3

off in the news to explore a slightly nerdy or maybe extremely nerdy kind of humor,

0:32.7

Econ Memes.

0:35.0

Or if you will, economics.

0:38.0

That is what we're calling today's show and what we have done is reached out to some

0:41.0

fellow Econ heads and asked, what is your favorite economy?

0:46.6

So after the break, we'll hear from an Econ grad student and a TikTok star.

0:51.7

Hopefully we'll get some laughs, we'll learn some Econ and if not, at least we'll have

0:58.0

helped you put off whatever it is you were procrastinating for the next 10 minutes.

1:07.5

Our first economy comes from Kyla Scanlon.

1:10.6

You might know Kyla from her TikTok and YouTube channels.

1:13.8

That's where she makes quirky explainers on the economy and the stock market and a whole

1:18.5

lot more.

1:19.5

And finance gets a lot of art made about it and I think it should because it's so ridiculous

1:23.8

so that was kind of the goal.

1:26.5

For folks who maybe don't know you, how would you describe your own level of finance

1:32.6

Econ nerdery?

1:33.6

Oh, I would say it's pretty intense.

1:36.4

People call me a fed Simp.

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