Romain Costaseca/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Romain Costaseca/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Lately we’ve noticed that something we think about all the time here at Planet Money is having a viral moment: recession indicators! From the more practical (like sales […]
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Kenny Malone, Jeff Guo, and Adrian Ma/NPR Kenny Malone, Jeff Guo, and Adrian Ma/NPR This year, there was some economic good news to go around. Inflation generally ticked down. Unemployment more or less held around 4-percent. Heck, the Fed even
sunnychicka/Getty Images sunnychicka/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption sunnychicka/Getty Images sunnychicka/Getty Images sunnychicka/Getty Images 2024 is over (phew!). We had weird consumer sentiment vibes, Bitcoin went to the moon, and the economy might have achieved a soft landing. And that’s
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Willis C. Hawley (left) and Reed Smoot meeting shortly after the signing of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. Library of Congress (Note: This episode originally ran in 2018.) The Smoot-Hawley Tariffs were a debacle that helped plunge America into the Great
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Ray and Becky Queen live in rural Oklahoma with their kids (and chickens). The Queens were able to buy that home with a VA loan because of Ray’s service in the Army. During COVID, the Queens – like millions of
Even in our modern world with planes and jets and drones, the vast majority of goods are moved around the planet in cargo ships. Which means our ports are the backbone of our global economy. The longshoremans’ strike closed the
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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to get inflation under control. One side effect is that taking out a mortgage to buy a home has gotten very expensive. That’s especially a problem for some homeowners who managed to get a
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