Kai Ryssdal
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Stalls selling wallets and shoes, lotions from Korea and Japan, all kinds of food, too.
And then we turned a corner.
Van and Mr. Dung, they're married.
They sell fabric from all over the world at this 10 by 10 foot booth to both wholesale buyers and retail.
And we should say we have bolt after bolt after bolt of fabric here.
Although it's hot here.
I don't know if you need a scarf, right?
Ask him how business is.
Vietnam's growing economy means more opportunities for prime age workers, like the couple's children, who are able to get higher paying and honestly easier office jobs.
That's the demographic change we're talking about, a change that does mean more opportunities for American investment and a bigger role for the Vietnamese workforce in the global economy.
We're going to go back to Henry Pham and his partially air-conditioned factory in a second.
But first, let's do the numbers.
Dow Industrial has picked up 317 points today, two-thirds of 1%, 48,535.