The Indicator from Planet Money

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Will new loan limits lower the cost of grad school?

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made a lot of changes to the federal student loan system. One of those changes put a new cap on the amount of loans students in graduate school can take on. Today on the show, we explain the theory behind this change and how it could impact the broader labor market going forward. Related episodes: The Market For Student LoansHere's why Black students are defaultingStudent loans are back, U.S. travel is whack, and AI — please, step back For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.  Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

• 

  Tariffs. Consumer sentiment. Cape Ratio. Pick The Indicator of The Year!

• 

  Catching up with a fired federal worker, a shrimper and a fraudster

• 

  The ghosts of Obamacare past, present and future

• 

  Can American cities grow AND stay affordable?

• 

  Nvidia chips for China, frozen Russian funds, and a lot of self-checkout s…

• 

  How to make $35 trillion ... disappear

• 

  Bitcoin miners are betting on AI over crypto

• 

  How a former Fed vice chair would approach rate cuts

• 

  Take a penny, leave a penny, get rid of the penny

• 

  Chips up, rent down, and are people really skimping on holiday gifts?

• 

  A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy

• 

  How Japan’s new prime minister is jolting markets

• 

  What would it mean to actually refund the tariffs?

• 

  Why the US chose not to have a passenger train system like Europe

• 

  Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help