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Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation

2023-10-18 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·18m 29s ·by NPR
Indicator exploder: jobs and inflation
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About this episode

When someone says “the economy is doing well”—what does that even mean? Like, for workers, for employers, for the country as a whole? According to what calculation? How do you put a number on it? The world of economics is filled with all sorts of “measuring sticks.” GDP. Inflation. Unemployment. Con