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The deficit normally shrinks when the economy is strengthening, but not now.

In just six years, robots could achieve parity with humans in the workplace, with machines working the same number of hours as people.

Warehouse jobs are growing even faster than the rest of the booming labor market. Are they good jobs?

Short sellers get a bad rap. Sometimes with good reason. But overall, they're an inevitable and useful part of a healthy financial system.

A storied American retailer has filed for bankruptcy.

Just because marijuana is now legal in Canada doesn't mean the market for it is easily quantifiable.

The Supplemental Poverty Report provides a more accurate and nuanced picture of poverty in America

Tyler Cowen rates Nobel prizes, blogs, and the importance of weirdness in conversation

Turns out nothing says 'I'm sorry' like cold, hard cash

NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator, sets out to solve a market mystery: why has the price of Fritos gone up in the White House press corps vending machine, despite a decrease in the cost of corn?

China is piloting a so-called social credit system, which allots every citizen a certain number of points. If you do the "right thing" you can extra points. If you don't, you can lose points.

In China, if you don't pay back your loans, you could end up on a blacklist. When you're on it, you can't get a credit card or a plane ticket. Today on the show, we talk with someone on the blacklist.

China has a problem: it's economy grew fast and that led to a trust problem. If someone doesn't pay back a loan, there's no real enforcement. But the solution might cause problems of its own.

Today on the Indicator: stolen jobs-day trends ... from our clever jobs-day friends!

The US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement keeps in place the basic NAFTA framework, with a few twists.

The latest jobs report comes out Friday and economists expect to see more new jobs being created, at a healthy pace. But there aren't just more jobs. People are also changing jobs more often.

General Electric used to be a household name — a pillar of the U.S. economy. Now, it's fighting to survive.

How financial bubbles reflect the particular psychology of the times in which they inflate.

Washington, D.C. is being sued for a billion dollars... for gentrification.

Corn prices are falling, but the price of Fritos in the White House press corps break room is up by 20%. What's going on? Team Indicator is on the case!