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This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Whalen Wong here with Darian Woods and

it is time for Indicators of the Week.

That's right and today we're focusing on a very special group of people for the world

economy.

It is the American consumer.

That's me, I'm the American consumer.

You are, I'm a resident in America so I guess I am too, kind of.

You're still consuming in America?

I'm consuming in America at years.

And you know the American consumer is very important for the world economy because it

can have a big impact on what's going on in the rest of the world.

So today we're going to check in on the American consumer and to check our pulse, we're going

to look at one of the biggest things we spend our money on, cars.

We'll also look at how much cash Americans still have after the pandemic boom starts to

fade away.

So back off everybody, this is Indicators of the Week with the state of the American consumer.

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