Sabri Beneshour

Does consolidation in the entertainment industry mean fewer movies?

So if it's not clear whether consolidation means fewer movies get made, does consolidation make movies more boring?

Like the bigger the audience the film is intended for, the less edgy it is?

That's playing here.

You can see that now if you want.

Yeah.

Avri Ravid, professor of finance at Yeshiva University.

Thank you so much for coming out here and talking movies with us.

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

The labor market might be a lot weaker than we thought.

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

The Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates again at its meeting yesterday.

One reason it decided to do that is because Fed officials think the labor market, which we already knew is cooling, is actually a lot weaker than it appears.

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer has that.

Something else Fed Chair Jerome Powell mentioned yesterday was tariff inflation.

He said import taxes should be just a one-time bump in inflation.

Diane Swonk is chief economist at KPMG and joins us for more.

Hey, Diane.

So if tariffs are a one-time deal, are we past tariff inflation yet?

You know, if tariff inflation is tariffs on particular goods that we import, how does that spread any further than that?