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This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Adrian Ma.

And I'm Darym Woods.

Today, we are thrilled to be joined by the clever, curious and cunning, clean-shaven Planet Money correspondent

himself, Kenny Malone.

The clean-shaven is somewhat accurate, although is that a reflection on how disheveled I

look most of the time?

You forgot cute.

I guess it might be.

Kenny, you are at the right place, at the right right time because it's indicators of the week.

On today's show, Nigeria's economy is doing a lot better than expected.

A card game ventures into the dungeon of record revenue growth.

And the crypto heads have some reasons to celebrate this week. That's after the break.

Indicators of the week, Darien, start us off. My indicator is 30%. The Nigerian economy, it turns out that it's 30% larger than originally thought.

30% is quite a delta.

I mean...

Yeah, it is a huge shift in how we perceive what is among Africa's largest economies.

This revision comes from the Nigerian government changing its model for how gross domestic product is estimated.

Is this just sort of like a numbers illusion that happened?

There is no insinuation of any malfeasance. This is just the reality of calculating GDP in

a low-income country. So as you know, GDP is the indicator you get when you add up all the

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