The Indicator from Planet Money

This week’s notable indicators: A distressing credit warning for CoreWeave, a Pokémon heis... more

Elections are more expensive than ever, but are campaign donations going to the races wher... more

Should money and class figure more prominently in how we identify ourselves? Pulitzer Priz... more

The United States national debt is running at more than $40 trillion dollars. It’s a poten... more

Oracle, the multinational tech giant has taken on a lot of loans to build up its AI capaci... more

Is AI coming for our jobs? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes AI could wipe out many whit... more

This week’s indicators: Why is inflation so super (derogatory)? How did Bumble go from dat... more

The 2026 midterm elections are fast approaching, and it’s gearing up to be the most expens... more

A labyrinthine rebate process. Shrinking cereal boxes. Mystery rental car charges. Cockroa... more

This year's Nobel Prize for Economics went to American economists Robert E. Hall and Micha... more

Nearly 30 million bison once roamed North America, from modern Canada to Mexico. In the la... more

This week our top indicators include changes to the funding model for SNAP, private equity... more

Federal immigration enforcement arrests reached record highs this past summer, and under t... more

Rising electricity prices are one of the primary reasons why data centers are a public ene... more

Norway has the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, but it’s facing a self-imposed dilem... more

How do you ask your friends to pay you back in a timely way? We’ve got an etiquette coach ... more

Most workers can’t start collecting full Social Security benefits until age 67. But a new ... more

What do influencing, AI and health sciences have in common? They’re all degree programs co... more

Universities spend millions of dollars every year on their athletics programs. But does th... more

What rhymes with "snakes" and helps the government classify economic activity? NAICS — or ... more