A new-ish gold rush and other indicators
The Indicator from Planet Money
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, we welcome back co-host Adrian Ma.
We also have the price of gold going up, German defense stocking up, and U.S. mergers and acquisitions slowing down.
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| 0:00.0 | NPR. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the indicator from Planet Money. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Waylon Wong here with Married Childs from Planet Money. |
| 0:16.9 | Hi, hello. |
| 0:17.7 | And Adrienne Ma. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey there. |
| 0:19.7 | So we are here for our weekly indicators of the week segment. |
| 0:24.4 | And before we get going, we wanted to welcome Adrian back because you have been away from the show for the past few weeks. |
| 0:31.1 | And Adrian, the floor is yours if you want to say hello and talk about why. |
| 0:37.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.9 | If you listen to NPR, you might already know this, |
| 0:43.2 | but I recently lost somebody that I loved. |
| 0:47.9 | Her name was Kia Duggins. |
| 0:51.3 | She was an incredible person. |
| 0:54.0 | You should actually look her up if you get a chance. |
| 0:56.8 | Kia was my girlfriend, and unfortunately, she was also one of the 67 people who died in that |
| 1:03.9 | American Airlines plane crash in January. Needless to say, I have been going through it lately. The past several weeks have been incredibly |
| 1:14.4 | tough. During that time, though, I've also gotten a lot of messages from listeners who offered |
| 1:21.5 | condolences and words of encouragement and even wanted to share their own stories of loss and what they've learned from |
| 1:29.1 | it. And so to all the people who reached out and offered words of support, I just want to say, |
| 1:34.9 | thank you. Adrian, we're glad to have you back. Yes, we are with you, and it's really nice to be |
| 1:42.1 | back in the booth. Thank you.'s really nice to be back in the booth. |
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