David Brancaccio

Right.

Let's talk about this, right?

Because if the yen gets more weak, as it's been doing until today, it makes it more expensive to buy those treasuries if you're a Japanese investor.

Right.

And so you don't want them buying less of our debt at a time that we're putting out a lot of it.

Julia Coronado is also a professor at the University of Texas, Austin.

Thank you very much.

My pleasure.

With the weather mess across so much of the country, the readout from the airlines does not bode well for air travel today.

Already, nearly 4,000 flights have been canceled in or to the U.S.

after more than 11,000 were canceled yesterday.

This is using data from the site FlightAware.

With the bitter cold, heating oil futures hit a two-month high, up 4% now to 52 a gallon.

The low temperature of the last day was recorded in Gunflint Lake, Minnesota, minus 40 degrees.

I suppose I shouldn't tell you it was 89 in DeSoto City, Florida.

Survey of Business Economists is seeing more optimism about the rest of the year.

There's less worry about recession and expectations are a bit higher that businesses will do generally well, but that's still not translating into much hiring.

Marketplace's Nova Safo has that.

After remaining generally mum on the immigration tensions and killings by immigration agents in Minnesota, 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies have now signed a letter calling for de-escalation.

Our coverage is in the Marketplace Morning podcast, if you miss it on the air.