Running the numbers on deportation, interest rates and math

在驱逐出境,利率和数学上运行数字

The Indicator from Planet Money

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2025-01-31

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Why haven't American 8th graders' math scores recovered? Does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actually have the resources to make all the deportations Trump's promised? And what's the path for interest rates in the Trump economy? All that on Indicators of the Week. Related Episodes:The U.S. once banned Chinese immigrants — and it paid an economic price Why Is The Fed So Boring? For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Npr.

  • This is the indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Waylon Wong.

  • And I'm Darian Woods.

  • It has been an extremely busy week in the news and we have got it all covered.

  • On indicators of the week.

  • We are here to recap a few of the top numbers in this slew of flooding the zone that we have seen.

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  • And here to bail us out with a bucket is our Planet Money colleague, Amanda Roncik.

  • I brought more than just one bucket.

  • I brought a bunch of buckets.

  • You're here on the ark.

  • You're gonna save us.

  • Gonna try.

  • It's been a lot of news this week.

  • Today on the show,

  • we're gonna parse some mysterious Fed speak from the central bank and we'll look to the costs of deportations,

  • plus some bad math scores.

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