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Are we on the cusp of another big health care debate?
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the Affordable Care Act, it’s been one battle after another. The ongoing fight over the ACA subsidies at the center of the government shutdown a...
Aid for farmers, but not from tariffs
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is starting a second round of aid — about $16 billion — for farmers affected by natural disasters. The aid is a...
Do city-owned grocery stores work?
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani swept the election on a campaign all about affordability. One pillar of that platform was the idea of city-ow...
Google's CEO on the AI boom and potential bubble
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: The artificial intelligence revolution is firmly underway, with tech giants investing billions in research and battling to...
For politicians, what makes a successful TikTok?
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One thing almost everyone can agree on about Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City: he's very good at vertical short-form video.Love it or hate...
Why we've got an eye on this week's corporate earnings
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few big box retailers report earnings soon, including Target, Walmart and Lowe’s. That could give some clarity on the state of the American consum...
Checking in with American exporters and Chinese buyers
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in South Korea late last month, some tariffs have been suspended or lowered, and China ...
What happens when the government finally does the numbers
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow's when we’re supposed to learn more about how imports and exports have been faring from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, though the 43-day g...
Brazilian soy farmers want Amazon restrictions to be lifted
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: As COP30 in Brazil enters its second week, one of the key agreements protecting the Amazon rainforest is under threat from...
Bridging the uncanny valley of lab-grown meat
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
About a third of global greenhouse gas emissions come from our food systems, and livestock production is a big part of that. Experts largely agree tha...
Trump's tariff turnaround
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The latest in President Donald Trump’s trade war waffling? Tariff exemptions aimed at lowering Americans’ grocery bills. Affected products could i...
What’s happening in Vegas?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Latin Grammys threw a party in Las Vegas last night. But this year, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has had a chilling effect o...
Does the Fed now have a "dueling mandate"?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even though we haven’t gotten recent economic data because of the government shutdown, there’s still plenty of speculation that the next Fed meeti...
How optimistic are small business owners in this economy?
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How optimistic are small business owners nowadays? According to a recent survey, the picture is downbeat — many owners have been dealing with tariff...
U.S. to ease tariffs on coffee and bananas
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: Donald Trump is set to cut import taxes on products like coffee, bananas, and beef as part of trade agreements with four L...
Bytes: Week in Review – Wikipedia urges AI companies to pay for its data, again
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we learned the Japanese investment firm Softbank sold all of its stake in the juggernaut chipmaker Nvidia. We'll get into why on today's “...
What happens when the data takes a month off?
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the government shutdown officially over, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is back at work after a 43-day hiatus. But all that missed data can’t b...
An unbalancing of power
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Congress may have ended the shutdown (finally), but it’s still entangled in a power struggle with the Executive Branch. Kai Ryssdal has thoughts. On...
What else is in the legislation to reopen the government? A lot.
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The longest government shutdown ever ended last night when President Donald Trump signed a stopgap bill to keep federal agencies going through Jan. 30...
Fixing the hemp loophole
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By now, you know that the House passed legislation last night to reopen the government. But you might not know about a provision that would completely...
As U.S. tariffs bite, India gives credit lifeline to exporters
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: India’s government has approved a $5 billion credit line to support its struggling exporters, as Indian workers across s...
How to train your humanoid robot
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech firms are racing to develop robot assistants that can take over our dreaded household chores. But teaching machines to perform these deceptively ...
Are we spending more because we can, or because we have to?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Consumers may have revved up their spending in October, but spending more doesn’t mean getting more — prices are also up this holiday season. In t...
Would 50-year mortgages make it easier to buy a home?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte have floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage as a potential way to make h...
Even if the government reopens, what about all that economic data?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 43 days, the government shutdown could end today. But there are still lingering questions: When will food stamps be distributed to beneficiaries...
Australia's spy chief warns of foreign hacker threat
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: Australia is increasingly vulnerable to "high-impact sabotage" from hackers backed by China, according to Australian intel...
Is grass-fed beef more nutritious? How can I waste less food? Is insect protein tasty?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout the season, we asked you all what questions you had about food, solutions and climate change, and you did not disappoint! In this episode, ...
Are there enough workers to build geothermal energy networks?
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Combatting climate change will likely require a multi-pronged approach to renewable energy generation. After all, it's not sunny or windy everywhere a...
More labor market blues
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Business owners aren’t too optimistic about the labor market, according to an NFIB survey. About a third are struggling to fill an open position, an...
The rise of the "solo economy"
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Singles Day in China: a retail holiday that runs circles around Black Friday and Cyber Monday. By comparison, single Americans are an untapped ...
Tariffs to hit a dinner table favorite: Italian pasta
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration is moving to levy tariffs of over 90% on popular Italian pasta brands on “anti-dumping” grounds. We look at how the move ...
'Cryptoqueen' facing jail after huge bitcoin seizure
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: A Chinese woman will be sentenced in London later for her role in a Bitcoin scam worth billions of dollars. Qian Zhimin wa...
No shutdown relief for air travel yet
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Senate passed a deal last night to end the record-setting government shutdown. But that hasn’t yet translated into relief for the beleaguered ai...
What are royalties, trademark and copyright?
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s karaoke night for Bridget and Ryan, but something stops them from belting their favorite tunes on their podcast: the law. It’s the perfect se...
The old technique that could power future nuclear reactors
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some AI companies are turning to nuclear power to meet demand for electricity. But traditional nuclear plants can take decades to bring online. Now so...
Where we're at with tariffs and inflation
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite expectations surrounding President Donald Trump’s tariffs, inflation doesn’t seem to be speeding up — though it’s hard to say for sure...
What's with the quiet over commercial real estate lending?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Commercial real estate has been struggling in the years since the pandemic. Office attendance has risen, though not as much in smaller cities. And whi...
A potential end to the government shutdown
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s movement in Washington toward ending the government shutdown. The Senate held a procedural vote yesterday. Seven Democrats and one independe...
China eases export controls
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: China has lifted export controls on computer chips that are vital to car production, marking an easing of trade tensions b...
Chocolate's high tech and climate-friendly pivot
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Extreme weather caused by climate change is affecting agriculture and raising the cost of foods like coffee, olive oil and chocolate. Cocoa prices hav...
Consumer sentiment hits three-year low
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Consumer sentiment — as in, how everyday people feel about the economy — fell to a low not seen since 2022, according to the University of Michiga...
How rising energy costs factored into Virginia's elections
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s edition of Economics on Tap, we’re heading to Virginia! The state held major elections this week, and affordability was top of mind for...
Gotta catch 'em all (as an investment)
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The value of Pokémon cards soared during the pandemic, and some have climbed in value nearly 4,000% over the past two decades. For some, Pokémon car...
Welcome to Day One of flight-mageddon
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Starting today, the Federal Aviation Administration is requiring airlines to reduce flights at 40 airports because of the strain that air traffic cont...
U.S. media giant zooms in on iconic British TV company
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service:
Bytes: Week in Review - Quantifying AI's impact on job cuts
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's “Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we discuss federal cybersecurity cutbacks that affected this week’s elections and a caucus of Midwester...
A 20-year record for job cuts
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas counted over 153,000 job cuts in this country last month — the most October layoffs since 2003. Are compan...
Quantum computing: What's all the hype about?
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum computing is still in an experimental phase, but tech companies say it could eventually have an enormous impact on the global economy. How lon...
When an AI data center moves in next door
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elyria-Swansea, a largely Latino neighborhood in Denver, has plenty of industrial sources for air pollution: a dog food factory, an oil refinery, a hi...
Skepticism and a civics lesson from SCOTUS
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yesterday, Supreme Court justices heard arguments and asked questions about whether an emergency powers law could be used by a president to overhaul i...
World leaders arrive in Brazil ahead of COP30
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: The summit is part of an effort to show that the climate crisis remains a top priority, although some big names won't be i...
Former regional Fed president: We need an "AI land grant act"
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Big tech companies have invested hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure, including data centers that are popping up all over the country. Construct...
The job market keeps flashing warning signs
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With no government jobs data available during the shutdown, analysts have turned to private reports for clues about the labor market. In the latest ro...
The rise of the private asset
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The London Stock Exchange has launched a series of indexes to track private investment funds. "Private investment" is a phrase we've been hearing a lo...
Trump's tariffs get their day in court
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today on whether President Donald Trump can use emergency powers to levy tariffs. The law in question doesn...
Shein opens a storefront in Paris amid investigation
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: Shein is making headlines for more than its new brick-and-mortar store in Paris’s famed BHV department store. But the la...
The Dry Line
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 100th meridian is the longitudinal boundary separating the humid East and the arid West. Researchers say the dry line is moving east because of cl...
Silicon Valley's tech bro culture is changing
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rya Jetha, tech culture reporter at The San Francisco Standard, spends a lot of time thinking about the industry’s internal dynamics. Gone are the c...
What to know as SCOTUS weighs Trump's tariffs
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday for and against the legality of President Trump’s signature economic policy: tariffs. In thi...
Friends, foes, and tariffs
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump’s tariffs have rattled the global economy this year. That goes for both allies and adversaries of the United States. But the ...
Why pay $50 billion for the headache known as Tylenol?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kimberly-Clark’s stock closed down 14% yesterday after it gambled nearly $50 billion on a company called Kenvue, maker of Listerine, Band-Aids, and ...
How shifting tariff policy hits one Pennsylvania business
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oral arguments over the Trump administration's "reciprocal tariffs" are set for tomorrow, in a test over limits to a president's power to act without ...
Starbucks stirs things up in China
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: Starbucks is selling the majority stake of its business in China to investment firm Boyu Capital as part of a $4 billion d...
Sora 2's disinformation problem
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OpenAI’s latest AI video generator Sora 2 has gotten a lot of attention for its realistic creations. The tool is supposed to have guardrails to prev...
Why do we have $2 bills if nobody uses them?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Skimbleshanks’ birthday bash and Bridget and Ryan head to the two-dollar general store for party supplies. When they get back, they tackle Ha...
How long until SNAP reaches kitchen tables?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump administration has been court ordered to partially fund this month’s SNAP benefits, after refusing to step in during the shutdown. Emergen...
Are Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs legal or not?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
That's the question before the Supreme Court this week. President Donald Trump has been declaring an emergency and then using emergency authority to i...
What hunger looks like in one state as SNAP starts to dry up
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This past weekend, as the shutdown stretches on, funds for SNAP benefits began to dry up. The Treasury Secretary says payments could restart this week...
Stocks rise on heels of U.S.-China trade deal
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: Markets in Asia rose in reaction to the outcome of the APEC meetings in South Korea as the U.S. and China stepped back fro...
Sam Bankman-Fried returns to court to challenge fraud verdict
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is serving 25 years in federal prison for fraud. His company collapsed and w...
How to face your financial fears
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s show, we’re talking about facing your financial fears, because it’s a scary time for many in this economy! Reema Khrais, host of “T...
How the economy went "K-shaped"
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. economy is increasingly “K-shaped.” That means the gap between the wealthiest companies and consumers, and ... everyone else, is growing....
Business leaders to Congress: End the shutdown
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government shutdown has now lasted a full month. Now, some business leaders — including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, ...
Clues about where inflation might be headed
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Federal Reserve's favorite inflation measure, was supposed to be released today. But at day 31 ...
With Trump back in D.C., business talks in South Korea continue
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: Chinese President Xi Jinping told leaders attending the APEC summit in South Korea of the need to deepen economic cooperat...
Bytes: Week in Review - Is AI to blame for this week's wave of layoffs?
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Several major firms announced tens of thousands of job layoffs this week, and some reports are putting the blame on AI. Plus, startup Character.AI say...
The case of the missing GDP report
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the government shutdown delaying the Bureau of Economic Analysis' third quarter GDP estimate, economists turn to Fed models and private analysts....
How can we build a more resilient labor market?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As big companies announce waves of layoffs, lots of workers are worried about AI coming for their jobs. On today’s show, we tune in to part of Kimbe...
A one-year trade truce
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have pulled U.S.-China relations back from the brink. China says both sides will suspend plans...
SNAP is "a really important, invisible piece" of the economy
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If nothing changes before the weekend, most of the 42 million people on food stamps, or SNAP, will not get their November benefits as scheduled. The i...
Is the U.S.-China trade war finally cooling off?
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: At a long-anticipated meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea and discus...
California's public GPU infrastructure experiment
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Graphics processing units are essential to training and deploying artificial intelligence models, but they don’t come cheap. Big Tech companies like...
Nvidia: Boom or bubble?
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nvidia's market valuation surged to $5 trillion Wednesday, breaking records. The chipmaker is on fire, and it’s using its glut of resources to inves...
You've heard of grass-fed beef. How about seaweed-fed beef?
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers figure livestock herds contribute between 12% and 20% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. That's mostly methane from the digestive pr...
A potential pullback in auto lender oversight
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bankruptcies appear to be mounting in the subprime auto lending business. This all comes as auto loan delinquencies are rising, and the price of new a...
South Korea hosts President Trump as trade tensions linger
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: U.S. President Donald Trump is in South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, or APEC. As U.S. tariffs in...
What the World’s Farmers Can Teach Us About Climate Resilience
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is transforming how the world grows and eats. In this episode, host Amy Scott talks with New York Times international climate correspon...
“China’s H-1B” talent visa gets praise abroad and backlash at home
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beijing is making it easier for global science and tech talent to visit or do business in China. Chinese officials opened a new K visa for graduates ...
AI is here. Where are the new, better jobs?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon and Chegg both announced layoffs this week; Chegg says AI competition was a factor, and Amazon’s CEO alluded to AI-related job cuts earlier t...
The shutdown continues
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Day 28 of the government shutdown, and lawmakers still aren’t budging on the budget. But Congress faces key deadlines this week: Funds for as...
What a homeowners insurance bill of rights could do
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than half of homeowners say their insurance premiums went up in the last year, according to Consumer Reports. The biggest culprits? Inflation, co...
Does the central bank have enough data to go off of?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee starts a two-day meeting on interest rates today. Most of the government data the Fed usually considers ...
HSBC braces for huge hit over Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: During the financial crisis of 2008, the crimes of Bernie Madoff came to light. The ripple effects of his Ponzi scheme —...
Wikipedia co-founder: Trust and empathy are essential
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales writes ”in the early years of the internet, we were right to be bullish about people and the techn...
What is the national debt?
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Halloween, and Bridget and Ryan are trying to answer a question about the national debt while preparing for their town’s giant Halloween e...
A sluggish spin cycle
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The shutdown has delayed October's durable goods report. But fear not! Michigan-based appliance manufacturer Whirlpool reported earnings today, and th...
The shutdown's about to get very real
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The federal shutdown is already having intense effects on unpaid federal workers. But we could be approaching a tipping point. In a memo, the USDA say...
From "How We Survive": The Uncanny Valley of Meat
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hey Smarties! Today we’re sharing another episode from the latest season of “How We Survive,” Marketplace’s climate solutions podcast. Host Am...
Why people see tariff-induced inflation differently
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Price increases are price increases, and consumers will bemoan inflation no matter the cause, right? Maybe not so much. Research shows that consumers ...
Southeast Asian countries strike trade deals with U.S.
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the BBC World Service: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit is underway in Malaysia. So far, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malays...