Darius Rafieyan
Darius Rafieyan joined NPR in 2017 as the founding producer of The Indicator from Planet Money. He has produced stories about infectious disease outbreaks, the world's greatest air salesman, and the economics of Tinder.
Before joining NPR, he was a producer at Bloomberg and Al Jazeera English. Rafieyan also reported from Iran for The Guardian's Tehran Bureau blog. He is a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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We armed The Indicator's producers with your questions, and they unleashed them on a roomful of economists at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association.
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Short sellers — investors who bet against companies — get a bad rap, but research suggests they help keep markets running smoothly.
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How one bank gave a whole new meaning to the term "mobile banking."
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Short sellers get a bad rap. Sometimes with good reason. But overall, they're an inevitable and useful part of a healthy financial system.
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People lie when they're looking for a mate online. Today on the Indicator: the lies we tell online, and how often we tell them.
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Today on the Indicator: How a small Belgian company wields enormous influence in global finance and diplomacy.
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How something that's all around us came to be worth millions of dollars.
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Team Indicator takes on the World Cup. We drink, we cheer, we watch the game and, of course, we bring our economic indicators.
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The homeless population in Los Angeles County has been skyrocketing. A team from USC tried to figure out why.
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For years even the most predatory student loans have been impossible to default on, but one lawyer has discovered a loophole that makes it possible.