Kai Ryssdal

Straight of Hormuz, by the way, last time I checked.

Still closed.

Our daily production team includes Olivia Burdette, Andy Corbin, Maria Hollenhorst, Sarah Leeson, Sean McHenry, Michaela Cea, and Sophia Terenzio.

Will Story is the supervising senior producer.

And I'm Kai Risdahl.

We will see you tomorrow, everybody.

This is APM.

It's a petroleum-based economy, gang.

We just live in it.

Also, what the labor force in Vietnam has to do with the economy here.

From American Public Media, this is Market Class.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Risdahl.

It is Tuesday.

Today, this one is the 14th of April.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

Another story from our series, The Age of Work, coming up later on in the program.

But we are going to start today with the economic reality of our geopolitics.

It comes in the form of the producer price index.

Prices at the wholesale level, which we learned this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, rose five-tenths of one percent month to month.

That is the headline number.