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The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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A Fed vice president gets a new pair of shoes. Does that mean supply chains are fixed?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Whalen here.
0:03.0	You may remember late last year when we invited our friends over a planet money to a family
0:07.5	food style competition.
0:09.6	We each made the case for an indicator of 2022 and then invited you the listeners to pick
0:14.7	a winner.
0:15.7	Well the votes are in nearly 600 of them.
0:19.0	Thank you so much for participating and you rated your interest rates as the indicator
0:27.1	of 2022.
0:28.1	So congratulations.
0:30.1	I want to share a gun dollars.
0:31.6	Yes.
0:32.6	Oh, feels so good.
0:34.6	Feels so good.
0:35.6	Feeling like people were trying to take it away from you.
0:37.6	Oh right.
0:38.6	Okay so we do have to put a tiny asterisk on this because when we put out the Twitter poll
0:43.7	for indicator of the year, we actually didn't put interest rates as one of the choices.
0:48.4	We put down inflation which is of course related but not exactly what your indicator was.
0:54.0	But you know what, even if you took half of my votes away, I still win.
0:59.8	I think that's true because you got the most right in votes too.
1:04.8	It wasn't just Twitter which you could see the count on Twitter but you also got the
1:08.6	most right in votes like people who emailed in.
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