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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-04-29 20:51:26

Taxes due today on goods sold tomorrow

Mon, 28 Apr 2025

Though it’s hard to say how much tariff-driven sticker shock consumers can stomach, some retailers...

In this uncertain economy, gold shines

Fri, 25 Apr 2025

The stock and bond markets may tumultuous right now, but gold prices have been on a tear. This week,...

Trump aims axe at community lender fund

Thu, 24 Apr 2025

The Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund supports lenders in far-flung and...

Say goodbye to affordable clothing

Wed, 23 Apr 2025

Trump’s tariffs will touch the vast majority of industries, but apparel — clothes, shoes, access...

No job? No office phone? Thanks DOGE.

Tue, 22 Apr 2025

Verizon lost nearly 300,000 monthly phone subscribers in the first quarter. The telecom giant put pa...

Boeing aircraft, duty-free no more

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

The scale and volatility of the trade war may be surprising, but tariffs aren’t new — unless you...

Special Coverage from Marketplace: Selling America

Sun, 20 Apr 2025

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: We’re in an unprecedented economic moment. But this time re...

A housing market dilemma

Fri, 18 Apr 2025

Some relief seems to have arrived on the housing shortage front — listings are up 9% compared to l...

Amid turmoil, firms cling to their employees

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

First-time jobless claims have been pretty stable since the start of March — unlike many other par...

Tariff anxiety turns fun splurges into stress purchases

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

We’ve heard about people rushing to replace big-ticket essentials ahead of trade war-related price...

Counting the ways tariffs disrupt our economy

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

For the first few years of the pandemic, businesses navigated a backed-up global supply chain that l...

Office uncertainty — inside and out

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

Fear of unemployment jumped 4.6 percentage points to 44% in March, according to a New York Fed surve...

Expect tariff evasion

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

Just like some people fudge the numbers to lower their taxes, some companies do the same when paying...

Eyeing the bond market

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

Stocks aren’t the only assets in the financial markets that were beat up this week by President Tr...

Acting on uncertainty

Wed, 09 Apr 2025

We’ve said it more than once lately: This economy is defined by uncertainty. And as President Trum...

A cold snap in corporate bonds

Tue, 08 Apr 2025

The issuance of corporate bonds has slowed to a crawl, thanks to all that uncertainty in the economy...

Footwear will likely still be “Made in China”

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

Import levies on Chinese goods amount to 54% right now. But some things that China excels at produci...

Who will tariffs hurt the most?

Fri, 04 Apr 2025

Tariff-driven inflation will hit Americans with the lowest incomes the hardest, slashing their disp...

Reminder: Tariffs are taxes.

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

Uncertainty about tariffs and trade policy has been top of mind since President Donald Trump’s ele...

Q1 dealmaking takes a dive

Wed, 02 Apr 2025

Corporate dealmakers hoped merger and acquisition ventures would heat up this year. But the first qu...

The negative wealth effect

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

People feel richer — and spend accordingly — when their assets rise in value. That’s called th...

Will owning a home ever be affordable again?

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Just how expensive has homeownership become? To afford a typical home, households need an income of ...

Are U.S. consumers finally running out of steam?

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

Consumers say they’re fed up with inflation, then they keep spending. But their behavior could be ...

Uncertainty, thy name is tariff

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

The U.S. economy grew at a 2.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2024, the Bureau of Economic An...

The law of unintended consequences

Wed, 26 Mar 2025

More tariffs are on the way, this time targeting vehicle imports. President Donald Trump favors impo...

Consumer confidence continues to dim

Tue, 25 Mar 2025

The latest reading marks the fourth straight month of declining consumer confidence, and it fell mor...

Will tariffs boost U.S. manufacturing?

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

The Donald Trump administration wants to strengthen U.S. manufacturing with tariffs on imported good...

Measuring a tax cut is all about the framing

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

We’re tackling a “mysterious and important” question in today’s episode: Should Congress use...

These sectors are bracing for price hikes

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

More tariffs are set to take effect April 2, and in most cases, American consumers and businesses wi...

Fed takes “wait and see” approach with tariffs

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

Federal Reserve policymakers aren’t cutting interest rates right now, though they expect two rate ...

Stress-Googling “recession”? You’re not alone.

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

“Recession” recently peaked on Google Trends — a sure sign Americans are sweating the possibil...

Working 9 to 5 — and 6 to 11. Maybe weekends too.

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

About 8.9 million. That’s how many U.S. workers worked more than one job in February — an all-ti...

Will homebuyers spring at lower rates?

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

Mortgage rates have fallen recently to 6.6% for a 30-year fixed. But will it be enough to bring pros...

The weakening dollar

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

The U.S. Dollar Index has fallen sharply in the last few weeks, thanks largely to tariff flip-floppi...

Could economic feelings become fact?

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

Just 44% of employees feel confident about the next six months at their company, a Glassdoor survey ...

Remember tariff exclusions?

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

Back in 2018 — the last time President Donald Trump led a trade war — some businesses got tariff...

Selling a “completely destroyed” home

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

Terri Bromberg lost her home of 20 years in the Los Angeles fires. Rather than rebuild, the artist a...

The contrarian jobs report

Sat, 08 Mar 2025

Overall employment dropped last month, according to the monthly jobs report from the Bureau of Labor...

This isn’t the 2018 trade war

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

The Federal Reserve may be steering the economy through another trade war. But this time, the inflat...

Uncertainty is a certainty

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

Ask an economist what’s driving decision-making right now, and the answer may well be “uncertain...

Tariff pain and retaliation

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

They’re here: President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico begin today, ...

Bird flu spreads its wings

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

As bird flu proliferates across U.S. farms, infecting chickens, cows and even humans, some public he...

Will Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes workers stay?

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

In the past decade, filming outside of Los Angeles has become a cost-effective option for many major...

Hope or fear?

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

Capital goods orders picked up in January — that’s stuff businesses buy that’ll last a while, ...

The GDP equation

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

The second Trump administration has made spending cuts a priority — already, the president has e...

A housing reality check

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

Home Depot, which makes most of its money from renovations, said small projects are driving its sale...

Who’s in the consumer-spending driver’s seat?

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

The top 10% of earners account for half of all consumer spending in the U.S., a new study shows. In ...

Tumbling economic sentiment — especially for Dems

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

American consumers agree: High prices aren’t going anywhere. All that stress about inflation, and ...

Access to federal data in flux

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Last month, key federal data sets were removed from government websites following actions by the Don...

Vote with your wallet

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

How low can it go?