Trucks, transfers and trolls

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Tired of waiting days for your money to transfer in the bank? So is the Fed. It's just launched a new instant payment system that could mean no more waiting for your paycheck to come through.

Plus, after a nearly four-year wait, the bizarre-looking Tesla Cybertruck is here! We check in on how it compares to other electric pickup trucks on the market.

And a draft research paper has the economics profession on edge. A popular online forum for econ jobs has long been littered with abusive, racist, misogynistic and otherwise toxic posts. Planet Money did a story on the site back in 2019. This new research ties toxic content to the universities it came from.

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0:00.8	NPR.
0:12.2	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.8	I'm Darren Woods, here with Aegean Ma.
0:15.9	What's up?
0:17.0	We've also got married child from Planet Money.
0:19.4	Also, what's up?
0:21.2	And the theme of this week's indicator is the week
0:24.0	is the good, the bad, and the ugly.
0:26.8	Now, I'm not going to say which is which, uh, you beat the judge.
0:30.3	The indicator is the week, good, bad, ugly edition.
0:39.4	First up, married child, what you got?
0:42.0	Hi, hello, I have 47,630.
0:45.4	That is how many distinct IP addresses,
0:48.1	researchers were able to identify from posts
0:51.4	on an econ-focused web for them.
0:53.2	Wait, so that's almost 48,000 IP addresses of, like, people?
0:58.4	Like, why, what is going on here?
1:01.2	Yes.
1:01.8	So the paper is about this controversial website,
1:04.3	a forum called Economics Job Market Rumors, or EJMR.
1:08.0	Yeah, you know.
1:09.6	Nitorious website in the economics world.
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