The Indicator Quiz: Banking Troubles

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It's another Indicator Quiz episode! We bring a listener onto the show and test their econ knowledge. This time around, the quiz is all about the banking system and its recent troubles.

Are you interested in being a contestant on our next Indicator Quiz? Just email us your name and phone number at [email protected] and put "Indicator Quiz" in the subject line. You have until the end of the day, Monday (05/29), to enter.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the Indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.0	I'm Darian Woods.
0:14.0	I'm Whalen Wong and it's time for another installment of The Indicator Quiz.
0:20.0	I love the quiz.
0:24.7	Trivia time is the best time.
0:27.2	As always, the questions in the quiz are based on economic ideas we've touched on in previous episodes of The Indicator.
0:34.2	Everybody can play along, but they can only be one person to play the quiz with us.
0:39.4	So let's bring out our contestant.
0:42.4	Hi everybody, I'm Kaui Weithaka from Arlington, Virginia.
0:46.2	So good to have you.
0:47.4	Hey, hello, welcome, welcome.
0:49.8	So Kaui, what do you do in Arlington?
0:52.1	I am a software engineer at a think tank.
0:55.3	Oh, I didn't know think tanks had software engineers.
0:58.0	Yeah, I actually work on the operation side, so I'm not like one of the thinkers at the think tank.
1:04.8	I hope there's some thinking going on.
1:07.8	The thinkers think and sometimes they need someone to help them write applications and things like that, and that's what I do.
1:15.6	Well, thank you for coming on the Indicator Quiz.
1:19.2	Today's quiz is just one topic.
1:21.2	It's a banking system and it's rough past couple of months.
1:25.9	How do you think you're going to do, Kaui?
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