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Ticketmaster's dominance, Caitlin Clark's paycheck, and other indicators

It's highs and lows in this edition of Indicators of the Week! The surprisingly high amount of electricity needed for artificial intelligence, basketball star Caitlin Clark's surprisingly low base salary, plus a potential crackdown on the ticketing company everyone loves to hate (possibly because of those high fees). Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  How the Dominican Republic became Latin America's economic superstar

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  The highs and lows of US rents

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  The "Winner Take All" problem

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  Is 'government crypto' a good idea?

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  A new gold rush and other indicators

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  Iceberg ahead for Social Security

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  Why Venezuela is no longer in freefall

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  Hazard maps: The curse of knowledge

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  How Colorado towns are trying to get some water certainty

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  Not too hot, not too cold: a 'Goldilocks' jobs report

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  Protesters want schools to divest from Israel. How would that work?

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  What a cabinet maker can teach us about interest rates

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  Is the federal debt REALLY that bad?

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  Taxing the final frontier

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  Video Game Industry Week: The Final Level

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  Work. Crunch. Repeat: Why gaming demands so much of its employees