Welcome back to Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.  On today’s episode: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push/"target="_blank" >Influencers for ICE</a>, China’s tremendous trade surplus, and America heads back to the moon.  Related episodes:  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/01/02/nx-s1-5662709/we-resolve-to-watch-these-2026-indicators"target="_blank" >We resolve to watch these 2026 indicators </a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/1246322286/chinas-trade-war-perspective"target="_blank" >China's trade war perspective</a>  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1029084078/who-owns-the-moon"target="_blank" >Who owns the moon?</a> For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org</a>. Fact-checking by Vito Emanuel. Music by <a href="https://dropelectric.bandcamp.com/"target="_blank" >Drop Electric</a>. Find us: <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@planetmoney"target="_blank" >TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/planetmoney/"target="_blank" >Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/planetmoney"target="_blank" >Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/money"target="_blank" >Newsletter</a>.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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