The interest-ing world of interest rates

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

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Countries all over the world are making big moves in monetary policies. From unexpected cuts to long-awaited hikes to a cautious cling to the status quo, this edition of Indicators of the Week has it all. Today, we explain the motivations for these drastically different approaches.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:03.0	This is the
0:05.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Waylon Wong.
0:14.4	And I'm Adrian Ma and this is indicators of the week.
0:17.8	And this week we are joined again by our colleague from Planet Money, Mary Child.
0:24.3	Welcome back! Yay!
0:25.8	Yeah, thank you for having me.
0:27.2	I just couldn't stay away.
0:28.9	And I think you know why.
0:30.2	I had to be here this week because it was a historic week for interest rates.
0:34.0	Huge week for interest rates.
0:36.0	Interest rates going up and sideways and down and twirling, twirling, twirling.
0:41.0	We're going to get into this interesting news after the break.
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