A few thousand followers ain’t gonna cut it if you want to make a full-time living as an influencer npr.org/1170524077

Kendall Hoyt is a fashion influencer with 500,000 followers on TikTok. She still works another full-time job, which is not unusual. npr.org/1170524077

We all want to do what we love with no boss, right? Today, how a generation grew up believing they could make that dream a reality through ~influencing~ It’s the 3rd of our 5 part series on the influencer industry, with Lia Haberman & Jalyn Baiden 💕 npr.org/1170524085

My first interview with NPR 🎉 and pretty much a dream topic: the professionalization of being an influencer. Thank you Robert Smith NPR + @CoreyTBridges + Darian Woods for including me! x.com/theindicator/s…

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The world of influencing reproduces and amplifies a lotta IRL dynamics. From sneaky contracts to discrimination, the industry’s dark underbelly. npr.org/1170524093

It’s the end of influencer week and there’s still so much to cover! We’ll take a crack at it today. npr.org/1170524155

The Fed on Silicon Valley Bank: Our bad. npr.org/2023/05/01/117…

How a banking system originally designed to support affordable housing ended up loaning billions to failing banks like First Republic. w @aarondklein @mrsgirma npr.org/1173426872

MEEP MEEP! Any day we get to use Looney Tunes sounds to explain the financial system is a good one! 👏 Aaron Klein Nia Girma for coming on the show, super producer Brittany Cronin for that audio magic 🪄 Darian Woods for co-hosting, and Sierra Juárez for ✅ the facts!

“There is no limit on how much of that we can do … other than that it must meet the test under the law.” – Jerome Powell Jeanna Smialek talks about her new book on the Fed, Limitless npr.org/1173424484

As a candidate, Joe Biden promised to make climate change a priority. But as president, he’s seemed friendly to oil and gas. What gives? npr.org/2023/04/28/117…

Whether workers are quitting or being laid off or fired tells us a lot about worker power. Aaron Sojourner joins the show to talk about the #laborleverageratio that measures this difference. And if you’re wondering, yes there will be airhorn. npr.org/1174384859