A beautiful bill, Mamdani's market, and stock subscriptions
episodePreviously titled “A Beautiful Bill, Mamdani's Market, and Stock Subscriptions” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 16, 2026
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What is the Indicator Quiz and who is the guest on this episode?
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This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Wayland Wong.
And I'm Ricky Malvey, and this is the Indicator Quiz. We test your knowledge of topics that we've been covering on the show, and you, dear listener, can play along too.
Yeah, we're trying to keep your mind sharp in these dog days of summer. And today we have listener Daniel Kane, who works as a professor and just got back from a little vacation. Welcome to the show, Daniel.
Thank you.
You're relaxed, you're tanned, you're ready to do this quiz. Yeah.
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It is indicator quiz time with our guest, Daniel. And Ricky here is gonna be your helping hand if you need a hint. Okay.
That's right. I'm you know, your let's say Zoom a friend. You can zoom me if you need me.
Yeah, or like your teaching assistant, use a college uh college metaphor. Although I guess the the TA doesn't help the professor. The TA helps the students.
What new 90s‑themed NPR merch is being offered to listeners?
If you can forget, if you ask
for advice from your TA, something's probably gone wrong.
All right, let's start with an easy question before heading into some of our other quiz segments. There's a proposal to put President Trump on a new $250 bill. While it's controversial, the show suggests one specific group might find these high value notes very useful. Who is it? Is it A? Travelers looking for more convenient sums of currency to swap on vacation. B. criminals because high denomination bills make it much easier to transport and conceal large sums of money for illicit purposes. C the US Treasury because larger notes are printed sparsely compared to other bills, and thus keeping inflation worries at bay. Or is it D nature preservationists because larger notes means fewer hundred dollar bills get printed and you save?
I I remember this. This would be B.
Ding ding ding. Excellent work. Now this new segment is something we're calling Test Your Terms. It is a series of questions on economic terms, people, or organizations that we've covered in our episodes. Are you, Daniel, ready to test your terms?
Sure.
If you're a grad, you've been navigating a new world of loan repayments. And if you're a future college student, you're gonna face stricter borrowing caps. What is the specific name of the legislation introduced by the Trump administration that changed borrowing and loan repayments? Is it A, the Fiscal Freedom and Capstone Accord, B the Student Debt Erasure Initiative, C the one big Beautiful Bill Act or D, the Higher Education Enablement Amendment.
Well, the third one of those is the only build that I actually recognize and uh Probably is the right one.
Your instincts are correct. It is, in fact, the one big beautiful bill act. Seemingly every legislative change falls under that act. Yeah, well I
guess you need to get things through reconciliation and you can only pass so many bills that way.
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