CoreWeave woes, Pokémon foes, and maple syrup lows
The Indicator from Planet Money

CoreWeave woes, Pokémon foes, and maple syrup lows

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 23, 20269 min
  • Business & money

This week’s notable indicators: A distressing credit warning for CoreWeave, a Pokémon heist, and depleted maple syrup reserves in Canada. Fact checking by Cooper Katz McKim. Your Next Listen –Why Pokemon cards are growing faster than your retirement account –Over 2,000 episodes in our archive on the NPR App Connect with The Indicator from Planet Money –The Indicator newsletter — a weekly roundup of news, ideas and staff picks. –Instagram, TikTok and YouTube –Find the Planet Money book –Find the Planet Money game, Sell Me A Sasquatch, and other merch at the NP...

Play episode

Opens the player: the full transcript, every word clickable, with translation and flashcards.

Try it: tap any word

Real sentences from the start of this episode. Every word is marked with its level.

Sentence 1 of 12 · 0:00

.

This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

Hear this sentence

Tap a word to see its meaning in your language.

Do you know these words?

8 harder words from this episode. Tap one to see what it means, then mark it.

  • B21:59
  • C23:21
  • B24:13
  • C15:36
  • B26:51
  • B28:01
  • B28:19
  • C19:53

Mark a few words and we'll tell you how this episode fits your level.

Is this episode right for you?

B2

B2 · Upper-intermediate

Comfortable if you already follow TV news

A1 51%A2 33%B1 11%B2 4%C1 1%
  • 95% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 202 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
  • 55 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

Transcript

The opening of the episode. The whole transcript is in the player.

0:00

NPR. This is the Indicator from Planet Money. I'm Waylon Wong. I'm Adrian Ma.

0:10

And I'm Ricky Mulvey. The three of us together can only mean one thing. It's indicators of the week. It's our weekly look at numbers from the news and why they matter.

0:22

This week we're looking at a syrup shortage. I'll explain why another debt-riddled tech company is making investors wary and a Pokemon heist. Like the Brewers and the Rays' outfielders facing off in the World Series?

That was the opening. The rest of the episode (8 min) is in the player: every word clickable, with translation, saved words and flashcards.

Continue in the player

Automatically generated from the audio. May contain errors. Audio belongs to its publisher and is played from their feed. Rights holders can request removal — copyright & takedown policy