Government shutdown fallout, price floors, and AI slop against the machine

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  NPR. This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong.

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  And I'm Adrienne Ma, and I'm Darian Woods.

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  Do you guys feel that in the air?

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  I...

• 00:21

  Allergy season?

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  It is for me.

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  That's true.

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  What do you smell in there?

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  Pumpkin spice?

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  In addition to anti-histamines and pumpkin spice, it is indicators of the week.

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  Favorite time of the week.

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  Today on the show, we have frozen federal dollars.

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  An escalating trade war with China.

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  And a strange trend infiltrating the music business after the break.

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  Indicators of the week, Darian, you're up.

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  My indicator is about federal infrastructure funding during the government shutdown.

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  And this indicator is 37.

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  For every infrastructure dollar affected in Republican districts,

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  $37 is frozen or canceled in Democratic districts.

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