Ticketmaster's dominance, Caitlin Clark's paycheck, and other indicators

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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It's highs and lows in this edition of Indicators of the Week! The surprisingly high amount of electricity needed for artificial intelligence, basketball star Caitlin Clark's surprisingly low base salary, plus a potential crackdown on the ticketing company everyone loves to hate (possibly because of those high fees).

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0:00.0	NPR. This is the indicator from planet money. I'm Darren Woods and I'm Adrian Ma and it's time for
0:17.6	Indicators the Week. It's that time of week and joining us on this edition is our colleague from Planet Money,
0:26.7	Erica Beres.
0:27.7	Welcome, Erica!
0:28.7	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:30.3	Thank you, Erica, for crossing the Planet Money Galaxy to be on
0:34.0	indicators of the week. Today on indicators of the week we're talking about
0:36.9	three numbers from the news. We'll talk about the surprisingly high amount of
0:41.4	electricity needed for artificial intelligence,
0:44.0	basketball star Caitlin Clark's surprisingly low salary,
0:48.0	and a potential crackdown on the ticketing company everyone loves to hate.
0:52.0	Oh, ticket master.
0:54.0	Anybody want to push back on that?
0:57.0	We'll have all of that after the break.
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