The Indicators of this year and next

Planet Money

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🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This year, there was some economic good news to go around. Inflation generally ticked down. Unemployment more or less held around 4-percent. Heck, the Fed even cut interest rates three times. But for a lot of people, the overall economic vibes were more important. And the vibes... were still off.

We might have achieved the soft landing the Fed was hoping for, but we saw some wackiness in the relationship between unemployment and job vacancies. Meanwhile, Bitcoin went to the moon. We have covered all of that in this past year, but which of these economic stories really defined the year?

Fortunately, we don't have to decide. You all do.

On today's show, a collaboration with our daily podcast The Indicator, we have Indicator Family Feud! Two Planet Money hosts enter, one Indicator host... also enters. And all three leave, having had a great time with lively discussion and light ribbing. Plus, some mild scheduling issues. But, we can't stress enough that no hosts were harmed in the making of this podcast.

Then, we look ahead to 2025 to see what indicators we think will define the coming year – the future and the past, on our latest episode!

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Amanda Oranjic. The year is almost over. You've heard a lot of pitches asking you to support NPR to the many of you who have given thank you. Now, if you are sick of these pitches, chances are you are a heavy podcast listener that you get a lot out of NPR podcasts like Planet Money, The Indicator, Up First, the NPR Politics Podcast.
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0:50.3	If you listen to two or three NPR podcasts each week,
0:59.0	we could be talking about 12 hours worth of sponsor messages in a year.
1:03.5	So just consider, like, what is 12 hours of your time worse?
1:07.0	And imagine spending that on something that matters.
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1:45.4	And thanks.
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1:52.8	Hey, it's Adrian Ma from The Indicator podcast, and it's that time of the year when we get to.
1:57.9	Hey, this is a weird request.
1:58.6	Are we able to run a crackling fire under this whole intro?
2:01.8	Is that possible?
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