NPR.

This is the indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Daryan Woods.

And I'm Whalen Wong.

Daryan, how many browser tabs do you have open right now?

Very personal question, but I have 15 open.

You have 15. That's more than me. I'm under 10 today. Should I feel bad? No, that seems like a very reasonable number of tabs to me. I feel like these days, every new headline has me running to open a new

tab because there is so much to keep up with.

I'm reading like you are about trade deficits, the bond market, value-added taxes. And when I'm doing

this research, I often find myself on Investopedia. It's a website with around 40,000 articles on

economics and finance topics. It's a really comprehensive around 40,000 articles on economics and finance topics.

It's a really comprehensive website, takes the academic terms, and distills it in this way that is super accessible.

The articles are constantly getting updated.

Amazing resource.

Caleb Silver is the editor-in-chief of Investopedia, and he's a friend of the show.

What have the last few weeks been like for you?

Extremely busy. We have had so many of our readers and people interested in learning or

relearning how global trade works, how the stock market works, we're seeing people get educated

or re-educated on how everything works in our economy and how it's changing right now.

Trade wars, like life, can come at you pretty fast. So today on the show, Caleb helps us

make sense of our current economic moment. He'll walk us through three vocab terms that are

spiking on Investopedia lately. Yeah, we have a little U.S. tariff history, plus two ways that describe how people are

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