Student loans, savings accounts, and goodbye to artificial red dye

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating numbers from the news.

On today's episode, we examine three measures the Biden administration is squeezing in before the clock runs out. Those include student loan cancellations, a lawsuit against Capital One, and the banishment of a sweet, sweet artificial dye.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:11.8	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.8	I'm Waylon Wong here with Adrian Ma.
0:16.1	What's up?
0:17.0	And...
0:19.0	All right.
0:20.3	Okay, that visceral crunching sound is coming from Planet Money's Kenny Malone I'm so sorry I'm just eating a bunch of Captain Crunch berries don't worry about it we'll talk about it later I am jealous right now because I have not had lunch yet but Kenny clearly is fueled and ready to go for indicators of the week.
0:38.7	Yeah!
0:40.5	That's right. It's our weekly look at numbers from the news.
0:44.4	And this week, you could sort of think of it as the Biden exit edition.
0:49.3	As President Biden leaves office, we look at some of the measures his administration is trying to push through
0:54.3	before President-elect Trump officially takes over. We've got indicators about student loans.
0:59.8	Whether high-yields things accounts are actually high.
1:02.9	Oh, and sweet, sweet artificial dies after the break.
1:07.9	This message comes from Wise, the app for doing things in other currencies.
1:12.3	Sending or spending money abroad, hidden fees may be taking a cut.
1:16.4	With Wise, you can convert between up to 40 currencies at the mid-market exchange rate.
1:21.8	Visit wise.com. TNCs apply.
1:25.1	This message comes from Monday.com.
1:27.4	Work management platforms.
1:29.3	Red tape, endless adoption time, IT bottlenecks.
1:32.8	And after all that, nobody really uses them.
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