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  • AI models and Prince Harry

    AI models and Prince Harry
    2025/01/24
    Indicators of the Week unpacks numbers from the news. This week, we delve into what President Trump's first AI announcement reveals about the economics of the industry, a Chinese company's answer to OpenAI, and the reason why Prince Harry may have settled with Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

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    AI creates, transforms and destroys... jobs

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  • Why Trump's potential tariffs are making business owners anxious

    Why Trump's potential tariffs are making business owners anxious
    2025/01/23
    A freshly re-inaugurated President Trump is reportedly considering making his first moves on tariffs: a 10% tariff on Chinese imports and a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, both of which he says could start as early as next week.

    If the U.S. slaps tariffs on foreign products, U.S companies that import foreign goods, and their customers, will bear the cost. But, before any of that happens, businesses can also face a less tangible cost—uncertainty.

    Today on the show, we hear from a couple business owners who experienced Trump's first trade war. And we'll learn how the uncertainty from tariffs, or just the threat of them, can have ripple effects throughout the economy.

    Related episodes:
    How Trump's tariffs plan might work
    Trump's contradictory trade policies

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  • Go ask ALICE about grocery prices

    Go ask ALICE about grocery prices
    2025/01/22
    Grocery prices have gone up 27 percent since before the pandemic. And high prices are especially painful for lower income households, who have less wiggle room to adjust their spending. But their experience isn't always reflected in broad measures of inflation.

    Today on the show, we look at a different way of measuring price increases that's designed to capture the pain that many households feel daily, including at the supermarket.

    Read more about the ALICE Essentials Index.

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    Feeling inflation in the grocery store

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  • Add to cart: Greenland

    Add to cart: Greenland
    2025/01/21
    President Donald Trump's proposal that the United States take "ownership" of Greenland has raised a lot of eyebrows. Can the U.S. just buy itself this big territory? Is that a thing? Turns out if you look at U.S. history, it's absolutely a thing.

    Today on the show: how massive land deals called "sovereignty purchases" have shaped the country we live in today, and why the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland is a lot more complicated than it would have been in the past.

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  • Student loans, savings accounts, and goodbye to artificial red dye

    Student loans, savings accounts, and goodbye to artificial red dye
    2025/01/17
    It's ... Indicators of the Week! Our weekly look at some of the most fascinating numbers from the news.

    On today's episode, we examine three measures the Biden administration is squeezing in before the clock runs out. Those include student loan cancellations, a lawsuit against Capital One, and the banishment of a sweet, sweet artificial dye.

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    Why big banks aren't interested in your savings account

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  • Who's on the hook for California's uninsurable homes?

    Who's on the hook for California's uninsurable homes?
    2025/01/16
    The Southern California wildfires are devastating large swathes of Los Angeles, destroying homes and businesses and displacing thousands. In the state's strained insurance system, homeowners who can't get fire coverage from traditional insurers are left with just one option—the FAIR Plan.

    Today on the show, we explain how the FAIR Plan works and the existential problems it now faces as the wildfires put new pressure on California's insurance market.

    Related episodes:
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  • The race to produce lithium

    The race to produce lithium
    2025/01/15
    Lithium is one of the hot commodities of the 21st century: needed for electric vehicles, semiconductors needed for AI, and grid-scale batteries. While the U.S. was once a pioneer in lithium production, it's fallen off — with others, including China, taking the reins. On our third and final episode of our grid battery series, we look at the race to produce the key ingredient in most of these batteries.

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    How EV batteries tore apart Michigan (Update) (Apple / Spotify)
    The surprising leader in EVs (Apple / Spotify)
    How China became solar royalty (Apple / Spotify)

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  • How batteries are riding the free market rodeo in Texas

    How batteries are riding the free market rodeo in Texas
    2025/01/14
    If you want to build a grid-scale battery project in Texas, be prepared to ride the free-market rodeo. On our second episode of this week's battery series, we visit the state that has the second-most battery storage capacity to understand whether large-scale batteries can help prevent blackouts.

    Related episodes:
    How batteries are already changing the grid (Apple / Spotify)
    Texas' new power grid problem (Apple / Spotify)

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