ICE is bad for business, heat is bad for coffee, and sci-fi is bad for markets

冰对商业不利,热对咖啡有害,科幻对市场不利。

The Indicator from Planet Money

2026-02-27

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It’s … Indicators of the Week (now on YouTube!), our weekly look at some of the most fascinating economic numbers from the news.  On today’s episode: How Minnesota workers were affected by Operation Metro Surge, why coffee’s getting more expensive, and what happens when a sci-fi AI scenario meets the stock market.  Related episodes: How ICE crackdowns are affecting the workforce Why this rural town wants an ICE facility  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 Julia Ritchey and Vito Emanuel. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below: See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR.

  • This is the Indicator from Planet Money.

  • I'm Waylon Wong.

  • I'm Darian Woods.

  • And I'm Adrienne Ma.

  • And today is the day of the week when we talk about our favorite numbers from the news.

  • That's right, everyone.

  • It is Indicator of the Week.

  • So on today's episode...

  • How Minnesota workers were affected by the administration's immigration crackdown.

  • How coffee is getting very hot price-wise.

  • And how basically a sci-fi blog piece jolted the stock market.

  • Indicators of the week?

  • Whalen, do you want to go first?

  • My indicator is $106 million.

  • That is the estimated amount of wages that workers in the Minneapolis St.

  • Paul area lost during Operation Metro Surge.

  • This $106 million figure was published this week by a Minnesota Research Institute called North Star Policy Action.

  • And Aaron Sojourner helped crunch the numbers.

  • He's a labor economist that we've had on the show before.