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The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

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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: the effects of pay transparency, Meta’s big win, and freaky flies and beef.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.1	This is the indicator from planet money.
0:13.9	I'm Daryan Woods.
0:14.8	I'm Whelan Wong.
0:19.2	Did you hear that crash landing, Wayland?
0:21.0	Visiting from a galaxy far, far away, the fantastical Nick Fountain.
0:26.4	Ah, here I am!
0:27.9	Ah!
0:28.9	Do you come in peace, Nick?
0:30.4	Oh, absolutely.
0:31.4	I'm here for...
0:33.4	Indicators of the week!
0:35.4	On today's show, we have...
0:38.4	The results are in on pay transparency.
0:41.1	We have people being paid to use social media less.
0:44.6	And we have a man eater.
0:47.4	A flesh eater.
0:48.6	A surprising reason that beef is more expensive these days.
0:53.2	All the topics too sure after the break.
1:01.2	It's Indicators of the Week, Daryon, you're up first. My indicator is 2.5%. That's the average
1:07.5	amount wages have changed following pay transparency laws.
1:11.8	That's according to a new economics working paper.
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