Sabri Beneshour

Is this all in response to politics?

You know, the president's comments about Greenland, Canada becoming the 51st state, or are these responses to kind of hard-edged economics?

If part of the idea of countries warming up to China is their experience that the U.S.

seems less reliable, is China more reliable?

Chad Bowne is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Thank you so much.

Thanks, Sabree.

In New York, I'm Sabree Beneshour with the Marketplace Morning Report.

From APM American Public Media.

Copyright law is not an Olympic sport, but athletes are having to compete in it anyway.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshour, in for David Brancaccio.

Twice now in this Winter Olympics, figure skaters have had to rethink their routines at the last minute because of copyright law.

The music they wanted to skate to, and have been practicing skating to, is copyrighted, and the athletes were told...

could not be used.

One of those skaters has since secured the rights.

Marketplace's Carla Javier looked into the complicated world of sports and music.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takeuchi is now armed with a mandate to spend.

Her Liberal Democratic Party won a massive victory, a two-third supermajority.

elections over the weekend.

First time that's happened since 1947.