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Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)

Economic lessons learned from Investopedia (and Ferris Bueller)

The Indicator from Planet Money · NPR

April 17, 20259m 29s

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Show Notes

The current economic upheaval has lots of us scrambling for our glossaries and history books.

Today on the show, the editor-in-chief of Investopedia walks us through three vocab terms — spanning topics from tariff history to market volatility — that are spiking on the website lately.

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