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The Indicator from Planet Money

More fraud, higher bond yields, and faster airline boarding

The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR

Business

4.79.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of Indicators of the Week: older Americans recorded higher losses to certain scams, the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is up to the highest it's been in more than a decade and United Airlines has a plan to improve how it boards planes.

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0:00.0

N-P-R.

0:11.0

This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Whalen Wong.

0:14.0

And I'm Adrian Ma, and it's time for...

0:17.0

...indicators of the week!

0:22.0

And today, we are joined by Planet Money's Kenny Malone.

0:26.0

Hello, Kenny!

0:28.0

I am so excited to be here, because I've looked at our indicators,

0:32.0

and I know it does not appear that they have anything in common,

0:35.0

but I'm going to throw it out there.

0:37.0

These are all soaring, or soaring.

0:41.0

They're all soaring, like soaring, but cooler, so there's an apostrophe in the end.

0:44.0

Okay, I think we could get any cooler on this segment.

0:47.0

Hear me out, hear me out.

0:48.0

We've got how the number of people losing money to fraud is skyrocketing.

0:53.0

You know, one of the most important interest rates has shot up to its highest level since 2007,

0:58.0

and then we do have actual flying.

1:00.0

The fascinatingly simple way United Airlines is going to get us all on their planes faster,

1:06.0

is this not a unified theme?

1:08.0

Prepare for blast-off after the break.

1:18.0

Indicators of the week, we have reached our cruising altitude,

1:21.0

so Adrian, why don't you serve us our first complimentary indicator?

1:26.0

$1.6 billion.

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