Prices fall, unemployment rises and Boomers have all the houses

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

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We've been on a wild economic ride lately so let's find the key trends to make sense of where the economy's headed. On this edition of Indicators of the Week, the numbers you need to know about falling producer prices, rising unemployment claims and generational home-buying trends.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:04.0	The
0:05.0	The economy has
0:08.0	The economy has been
0:12.0	the economy has been on this kind of blindfolded rocket ship roller goes to ride
0:16.2	over the last couple of weeks. We've seen things go up and down, we're not even
0:20.6	sure which way is up, and so what we have for you is an indicators of the
0:25.8	week where we talk all about what's happening with inflation what's happening with
0:29.6	house buying and what's happening with unemployment.
0:35.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:37.0	I'm Darien Woods here with Sarah Gonzales
0:40.0	all the way from Planet Money.
0:41.0	Boop whoo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-boo-o-boo-o-o-o-o-ho. And Adrian, all the way from Planet Money. Hi, hi, hi, hi.
0:43.4	And Adrian Ma from The Indicator.
0:45.5	Welcome.
0:46.3	What's up?
0:47.3	So those topics all after the break.
0:51.4	Indicators of the week, Adrian Ma, what do you have?
0:54.4	I have for you the producer price index.
0:57.7	You could call it the lesser known sibling of the consumer price index, you know, kind of
1:01.7	of like Salanges to be on say I feel like
1:04.1	salanges more known than the producer price index though that seems like an
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