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Every weekday, host Kai Ryssdal helps you make sense of the day's business and economic news — no econ degree or finance background required. "Marketplace" takes you beyond the numbers, bringing you context. Our team of reporters all over the world speak with CEOs, policymakers and regular people ju...
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As prices rise, so too does our credit reliance
Prices are rising faster than average wages in this economy, and many Americans have turned to credit to keep up. They are paying it off for now, but...
Wage growth disappoints
This economy added twice the amount of jobs expected in August, which is good news for the labor market. Still, the latest jobs report showed average...
Chevron's big bet
American oil giant Chevron plans to funnel $7 billion into its Venezuela operations over the next five years, with a goal of more than doubling its pr...
Even higher diesel prices are coming
The average cost of a gallon of diesel was $5.68 on Wednesday — just 13 cents shy of a record high. Tariffs and ongoing wars are both to blame. But so...
Borrowing costs go boom
Bond yields jumped to multi-decade highs in some countries this week, as market anxiety about inflation and the Iran war grows. The U.S. is not exempt...
Oil markets brace for maintenance season
In Texas oil country, September usually marks the beginning of maintenance season. But with refineries running at near-100% capacity to meet increased...
The ongoing cost of ICE raids on Latino entreprenuers
It’s been more than a year since the Trump administration intensified ICE raids in immigrant communities across the U.S. Latino entreprenuers say the...
Grass is always greener
The NFL is back in a couple weeks, and so is artificial turf. Several NFL stadiums rolled out the green carpet this summer for World Cup matches, whic...
How much power does the Fed really have?
Another month, another PCE report that put annual core inflation meaningfully above the Fed’s 2% target. The central bank has been fighting high infla...
Preparing for an AI tax crisis
If artificial intelligence really does replace human labor, the U.S. could be in for a tax revenue crisis. That’s because high unemployment shrinks th...
Does Canada need new energy partners?
Fuel hasn’t been touched in the trade clash between the U.S. and Canada (yet). It’s probably because the countries have an interdependent energy relat...
When unemployment becomes endless
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 1.8 million Americans have been actively looking for a fulltime job for more than 27 weeks. That...
Sec. Bessent's big plan to finance the national debt
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s buyback of long-term bonds was a bit of a letdown this week — the interest rates barely budged. The Treasury’s next...
Let's import some inflation
The price of imported goods, sans energy, was up 4.5% year-over-year in July. Data center buildout is driving that jump — imported computer prices wer...
Got beef?
Cattle herds are at a national low not seen since the 1950s. That’s driving up the price of beef for consumers, but it’s also affecting the companies...
Consumer sentiment takes a tumble
Consumer spending fell in early August, according to preliminary results from the University of Michigan’s survey. July retail sales were down, and th...
Retail feels the squeeze
In the Commerce Department’s retail sales report for July, sales at stores of all kinds were down 0.6%, when a modest increase in sales had been expec...
Long-term bond yields hit a long-term high
The government is selling 30-year bonds with interest rates at a quarter-century high. We talk with Greg Ip at the Wall Street Journal about how that...
Steep inflation, meet slow wage growth
The average household’s buying power has slipped by about 0.1%, when the latest CPI report is compared to last week’s jobs numbers. In layman’s terms,...
Credit card delinquencies climb
Credit card delinquencies are sitting at 13% so far this year. It’s the highest national rate since the tail-end of the Great Recession. The aftermath...
Whoosh, there go our wage gains
More bad news from last week’s jobs report: Wage growth slowed to 3.2%, the lowest yearly rate in five years. Combine that with high inflation, and co...
Job losses reveal a shakier labor market
The July jobs report is out, and it’s a doozy: The U.S. labor market shed a net 23,000 jobs last month. Previous months, which saw moderate gains, wer...
Should there be an oil export ban?
As high gas costs pile up for drivers, Big Oil is getting jumpy. That’s because one way to bring prices down, at least temporarily, is an oil export b...
Want a raise? You might have to find a new job
You know how wages have, on average, stagnated when you account for inflation? Well there’s one group that saw some actual wage growth last month: Job...
Manufacturing boomed in July. Thank all that AI money
In July, the manufacturing sector grew at its fastest month-to-month rate in four years. A new tax law likely boosted company spending to some degree,...
High oil prices, big oil profits
Permian Basin oil companies are reporting strong quarterly earnings, as the Iran war keeps prices up and supply restricted. West Texas, formerly in a...
The future of self-driving cars
Amazon’s autonomous vehicle company, Zoox, can now roll out 2,500 of its vehicles annually in the next two years. Are more robotic cars coming, or wil...
Why price-squeezed consumers still shell out for organic
Since 2020, the cost of groceries has risen 26%. But contrary to what you might think, cash-strapped consumers aren’t necessarily staying away from pr...
The states making extra off of high gas prices
The Trump administration’s war in the Middle East has driven up fuel prices globally. As drivers pay more at the pump, some oil-rich states like New M...
No, Trump's tariffs haven't reshored manufacturing jobs
President Trump insists his economic policies have supported a reshoring of manufacturing jobs. At a rally held at a Michigan GM facility on Monday, h...
TPS cuts will tear through the labor market
More than 330,000 Haitians lost their ability to legally live and work in the U.S. this week. A recent Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administ...
A year later, is Trump’s investment in Intel… a win-win?
Intel’s sales jumped by 25% last quarter, the largest increase in over a decade — making the U.S. government’s stake in the company around $40 billion...
Unemployment filings hit a 55-year low
Sounds rosy, right? Not if you’re long-term unemployed, underemployed, or a new grad. In this episode, the labor market’s low-hire, low-fire status qu...
What's driving up the 30-year Treasury yield?
The yield on a 30-year Treasury bond has been hovering above 5% for a couple weeks — the longest stretch since the Great Recession. One reason is Trea...
What Anthropic's copyright settlement means
Anthropic settled a copyright case Monday, agreeing to pay out $1.5 billion to authors whose material had been scraped to train its AI chatbot. It com...
The four dollar threshold
Blink and you’d miss it — gas prices cooled earlier this summer as the Iran war reached a ceasefire, but the national average is back up to $4 a gallo...
Will Chevron-Iraq deal solve oil woes?
The short answer is no, the Chevron-Iraq deal won’t solve the problem. So why did the U.S.-based energy company sign a vague, preliminary deal to nego...
Businesses brace for tariff déjà vu
The White House has proposed new tariffs on 60 countries that allegedly aren’t doing enough to ban forced labor. Domestic businesses, already burned f...
The U.S. has the steepest inflation in the G7
Though the latest inflation reports show price growth cooled a bit in June, U.S. inflation remains higher than its peer nations, which include the U.K...
Inflation came down in June. Will it stay that way?
We got a better-than-expected June CPI report: Inflation slowed in both the goods and services sectors. But it’s hard to say whether that trend will c...