A trucker, a farmer, and an entrepreneur walk into a global supply shock

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  NPR.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Darian Woods.

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  And I'm Ricky Mulvey.

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  The US-Israel war with Iran has a grave human cost.

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  And all across the world, there's a growing financial cost too.

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  Higher gas prices, delayed international flights.

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  This is what economists call a supply shock.

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  The fossil fuels that power our factories, ships, and planes are suddenly a lot more expensive.

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  So we wanted to hear from the people in America whose economic livelihoods are particularly sensitive to the war in the Middle East.

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  Yeah, oil and gas are inputs into so many things around us.

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  Plastics, fertilizer, even medicines.

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  So today on the show, we'll hear from a truck driver about rising transportation costs.

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  We'll ask an Iowa corn farmer about what he's doing as fertilizer prices shoot through the roof.

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  And we'll speak with an entrepreneur who's got a few words for you, an alternative to plastics.

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