Darian Woods
Stories
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Business
The cost of putting on the Olympics is making it harder to find host cities
The Olympic Games almost always comes with a substantial financial burden for a host city. But are cost-benefit analysts too simplistic for how we evaluate their impact?
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'The Indicator from Planet Money': The young trolls of Wall Street are growing up
Retail traders are still buying stocks as much as they were during the pandemic, subverting expectations that they would go away after people returned to work and their pre-COVID lives.
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How to invest like Congress
Traders are using publicly available data to track which lawmakers are reporting big stock market gains. We try to copy them.
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How NVIDIA momentarily became the most valuable company in the world
Twenty years ago, NVIDIA was mainly familiar to avid gamers looking to upgrade their computer. But it turns out their CEO has been steering the ship towards artificial intelligence since then.
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'Planet Money': The movement to make prison phone calls free
How did prison phone calls get to be so expensive? The team from The Indicator from Planet Money explains.
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What are "Ghost Jobs"?
A vexing phenomenon is plaguing the labor market. "Ghost jobs" refer to listings by employers that either aren't real or have already been filled but never lead to an actual hire. This is frustrating not only to job seekers but also to the Federal Reserve, which is trying to steer the economy to a stable place.
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Ghost jobs
Today's jobs report shows a slight rise in unemployment to 4%. And some frustrated job seekers are growing tired of applying for job after job with no replies, sometimes asking whether the listings are even real. And this isn't just vexing for applicants. It's also haunting economists when trying to figure out how much slack there is in the labor market, and whether interest rates should be raised or lowered. Today on the show: the rise of ghost jobs. Where they're happening and why. Related episodes: Not too hot, not too cold: a 'Goldilocks' jobs report The Beigie Awards: From Ghosting to Coasting For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.