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This is the Indicator from Planet Money, I'm Adrian Ma, and today we got a special guest

you might know him from his videos explaining arcane financial terms, or possibly from his

best-selling historical murder mysteries. Or more likely you know him because he's worked

on this show. He was the previous editor of the Indicator. Today we're rejoined, sorry,

we're rejoined by none other than Patty Hirsch.

Oh sorry, I was waiting for the applause.

Good luck, thank you so much. Thank you for that fun, you're a some heartfelt welcome agent.

It's lovely to be back. Yes. It's like, I don't know, it's like, it's like being clasped in a

warm embrace. It's always good to see you. Thank you. We've asked you back, Patty, because you love

explaining weird and scary stuff that is happening in the markets in the economy. I do, I do.

Yeah. And we're having a little trouble understanding some of the weird and scary stuff going on in

the markets right now. Fair enough, I mean if you've been paying any attention to financial markets

over the last seven days, you'll know that things have been a little up and down, particularly

for technology companies, some of which have been ricocheting around like, I don't meanions in a

bouncy castle. Market volatility that we've been seeing that Facebook shares, meta shares,

they're sinking big time down down Wall Street, but Apple shares ending the day up more than

30% big tech stocks going up and down 25, 30, 40% up and down in some it's like some kind of a horror

story. Yeah, I can feel my pulse actually through my neck right now after hearing that. And we've

got more volatility to come. We've got earnings reports from Twitter. We've got Yelp. We've got

Shutterstock, GoDaddy, Expedia. It's going to be wild. It's like high tech entertainment all week long.

Everybody just take a deep breath. Things have settled down a little since last week, but looking

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