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The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Indicators all about kicking the can down the road but never far enough. A deal on water in the west, the US's tippy top credit rating gets put on notice, and tech companies want us to have less fun and fewer shared passwords.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.6	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.6	I'm Waylon Wong here with Adrian Ma and we are joined by our friend Nick Fountain
0:18.6	from Planet Money.
0:19.6	Hello Nick.
0:20.6	I'm your friend.
0:21.6	Thank you.
0:22.6	Thank you for being a friend Nick.
0:26.3	You're here because it's time, it's the time of week where we pick three numbers from
0:31.4	the news that just kind of sum up where the world's at.
0:35.6	Yeah and the world right now is all about cutting back.
0:38.7	Cutting down, I think that is a fair description.
0:41.9	We have got three indicators.
0:43.8	One of them is about how states are trying to cut back on water use.
0:48.5	Mine is about a potential down grade of US creditworthiness.
0:53.4	And spoiler, I actually brought two little indicators there about tech companies being
0:58.3	bummers and trying to ruin the party.
1:01.1	But we are not going to be a bummer today.
1:02.9	No, the party is here.
1:04.6	It's indicators a week.
1:06.4	Indicators a week?
1:07.6	Yeah.
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