Wailin Wong is a long-time business and economics journalist who's reported from a Chilean mountaintop, an embalming fluid factory and lots of places in between. She is a host of The Indicator from Planet Money. Previously, she launched and co-hosted two branded podcasts for a software company and covered tech and startups for the Chicago Tribune. Wailin started her career as a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires in Buenos Aires. In her spare time, she plays violin in one of the oldest community orchestras in the U.S.
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Money that investors borrow to trade in the stock market is called margin debt. This debt is now above $1.5...
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Computer memory prices are skyrocketing and subverting a time-tested theory that says this should not be happening.
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American sunscreens are way behind the rest of the world in terms of how well they prevent skin cancer. The...
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Summer is great for some sizzling reads and NPR staff have recommendations for romance novels from our Books We Love...
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Summer's great for some sizzling reads and NPR staff have recommendations for romance novels from our Books We Love list.
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The Federal Reserve has two main goals: price stability and maximum employment. But new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh seems to...
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Consumers were alarmed by high egg prices last year. The DOJ's case against three major egg producers confirms that a...
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Inflation is at a three-year high. That's a problem for the Fed. Yet, under the leadership of new chair Kevin...
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Gambling is not something that grew out of American sports. Sports in the U.S. exist in their current form because...
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The Corporate Transparency Act was supposed to shed light on shell companies. It had bipartisan support, until it didn't. Why...
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The AI model Claude Mythos was so powerful that Anthropic decided not to release it to the masses. Then the...
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The global oil market has supported the U.S. dollar for over 50 years. But the system shows signs of cracking...