Alina Selyukh
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3 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Across all online stores during Prime Day sales, people spent more than $24 billion, which is more than two Black Fridays worth.
That's according to Adobe, which tracks online transactions.
People hunted for deals on appliances, electronics, and a lot of back-to-school shopping.
Many shoppers say they want to get ahead of potential future price increases.
Adobe says the hottest sellers included kids' clothes, home security items, refrigerators and games.
Alina Selyuk, NPR News.
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The Fed chair says forecasts suggest a meaningful increase in inflation over the course of the year, but the Fed is open to the possibility that price increases could be brief or minor, which would inform its policy.
Last week, the Fed held interest rates steady, as it's done since December.
That's drawn increased attacks from Trump on the independent Fed and on Powell himself.
Alina Siluch N Pierre News, Washington.
Forever 21 grew massive in the early 2000s by making designer style fashion accessible, bringing runway styles to mall shoppers for cheap prices. This was the dawn of fast fashion. The chain expanded aggressively and over time struggled to compete with even faster, even cheaper online rivals. Companies like ASOS and Boohoo and now Shein and Temu shipping ultra-fast fashion from China.
Forever 21 survived its first bankruptcy in 2019 as a smaller company with new owners. Now it's back on the auction block, losing money and shoppers, blaming online competition and high inflation, warning that this could be the end of the line. Forever liquidation. Alina Seluk, NPR News.
Brought my latte.
Yes, coffee prices have soared. And it all started with problems with harvests, first in Vietnam and then in Brazil. These are the two top growers of the most common types of coffee beans. And the culprit was abnormal weather, which many in the industry attribute to climate change. I talked to some longtime importers of green coffee, that's raw beans.
One of them is John Cassette from Royal Coffee in California. And he says, first you had Vietnam with a serious drought, followed by heavier rains than usual. And that drove up prices for the bean that grows there. And already had people scrambling to switch to the bean that grows in Brazil. And then Brazil had one of the worst droughts on record. Here's Cassette.
Eventually it did rain, but farmers later said a lot of the damage was irreversible. And so the price of the most common coffee, that's called Arabica, jumped 70 percent this year. The price of the other type of coffee called Robusta at one point doubled in price. Both cost more than they ever did. Arabica and Robusta. How different are these?
Yeah, so they have different flavor based on where they grow. What I have here in my cup is Arabica. It is the most common. Brazil is the biggest grower. And this coffee grows at higher altitudes. It has a softer, sweeter taste. And that's what you find often in your roast coffee, your ground coffee. Robusta grows at lower elevation. Vietnam is the biggest grower.
And this bean has a harsher, more bitter taste. It's used a lot for instant coffee.
You know, coffee markets are complicated, like all commodities. Many of the traders actually need the physical coffee, the bags of beans. But many traders are just financial speculators. They're trying to game the price change, you know, buy cheaper, sell higher. And everyone bets on how much they think beans will cost in the future.
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