Sharon Reich-Garson

Now, a month later, investigators are zeroing in on Antwerp.

The city is the heart of the global diamond trade, and it's also home to a sprawling underworld.

Most shops there play by the rules, but some give criminals a way to move their stolen gold and jewels.

Paris-based reporter Gabriel Stargarder says the links between France and Belgium's underworlds are well established.

So what challenges do investigators face as they're trying to penetrate these groups and gather evidence, maybe even track down the jewels?

If you want to understand the big picture in the US economy, you need solid data.

But because of the recent government shutdown, the usual flow of numbers from the Fed has stopped.

That means analysts and reporters are a lot more in the dark.

No fresh updates on unemployment, inflation, or even GDP.

I checked in with reporter Howard Schneider, who covers the Federal Reserve,

to find out how hard it is to get a read on what's really going on.

Then without that data, what are you using to base your reporting on?

And today's recommended read takes us to Colombia.

The Navarro del Ruiz volcano erupted in 1985, and families are still fighting to find children missing from the chaos.

We'll drop a link to that story in the pod description.

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