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Marketplace® is the leading business news program in the nation. We bring you clear explorations of how economic news affects you, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. The Marketplace All-in-One podcast provides each episode of the public radio broadcast programs Marketplace,...
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Canada strikes back in the trade war
Tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. imports to Canada are officially in effect today. The import duties are Canada’s response to tariffs impose...
Global investors continue dumping bonds
U.S. bond markets are closed today for the Labor Day holiday, but we're continuing to track the global bond sell-off. However, is this a sell-off or m...
What it's like to log off from a career in tech
More Americans are leaving the labor force for a variety of reasons. The labor force participation rate — which measures the share of working-age Amer...
What wasn't counted in August's jobs report?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is releasing its August jobs report today. But what the numbers might not show are tens of thousands of people who stop...
The minimum wage problem
This morning, we’re checking in on wages. A new report from the Cleveland Fed found that a record number of workers legally entitled to the minimum wa...
NYC public schools ban AI through middle school
Google survives yet another antitrust case without having to break up its business. Plus, New York City public schools announced a new policy this wee...
What if the AI boom never turns a profit?
Even if artificial intelligence leads to a more prosperous future in the long run, most agree there will be a lot of disruption in the meantime. Marke...
Is there too much money in college sports?
College sports has become a multi-billion dollar industry, but until just a few years ago, the actual athletes never saw a penny. It wasn’t until 2021...
Tea, tariffs, and tough decisions
On this morning's show, "Marketplace Morning Report" host Kimberly Adams is joined by Rachel Rozner, owner and founder of Elden Street Tea Shop in Res...
AI in banking: the good, the bad, and the efficient
The banking sector is figuring out how to navigate AI.
And the stakes are high. The tech has raised red flags over potential bias, particularly...
The economic power of BTS
South Korean boy band BTS is currently in the U.S. as part of their first world tour after a four-year hiatus. Their fans, known as ARMY, are extremel...
Food assistance, 62 years on
Sixty-two years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law, making food stamps — now known as SNAP benefits — permanent...
What BookTok is doing for bookstores
More than 1,500 new independent bookstores have opened nationwide since 2020, according to the American Booksellers Association. And the pace is accel...
ICE is collecting DNA from detainees for future policing
Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be responsible for collecting the DNA of nearly a million people in 2025. The genetic material is then sent to...
The summer of the "very stretched consumer"
Consumer confidence is down in the dumps. We got lots of retail earnings reports this week, and they hinted at the continued K-shape of our economy, w...
Why inflation in this country is so sticky
Inflation in July remained stubbornly elevated, the personal consumption expenditures price index showed; it was up 3.7% overall. Consumers have faced...
How much oil is really getting through the Strait of Hormuz?
The U.S. says our forces in the Middle East have been keeping oil traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, but independent trackers can't account...
LIV Golf could now be in the rough
In 2022, LIV Golf pulled major golf stars away from the established PGA Tour with massive payouts. But this year, the Saudi Public Investment Fund pul...
Tariffs with Canada, again
Negotiations between the United States and Canada fell apart over the weekend, failing to prevent the U.S. imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth o...
AI loves negative parallelism
Anthropic recently announced it's adding watermarks to all text outputted by its chatbot Claude. But often, you don't need fancy detection software to...
The Girl Scout Cookie queens of America
Girl Scout Cookies represent a $800 million industry. A new documentary called “Cookie Queens” follows sellers across the country, and one of those fe...
Billionaires and British football
It's been a month now since the World Cup ended, but English football is back this week. The Premier League season kicks off Friday. And Jeff Bezos, t...
Cyberattacks on U.S. water systems raise concerns about security
Water systems across a dozen states were targeted by cyberattacks in recent weeks. So far, the water has remained safe to drink, but the incidents hav...
How do claw machines work?
Today, we’re resharing an episode that’s perfect for a summer listen. We’re answering Maddox’s question about what happens to your quarter when you pu...
As space launches increase, there aren't enough spaceports
More than 100 rockets took off into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast last year — a new record. And with more rockets taking flight each year, the avai...
A "Silk Road" in the Arctic?
China, the world's second-largest economy, sent several cargo ships through an Arctic route over the weekend, along waters hugging Russia's northern c...
Retail sales fell unexpectedly in July
Forecasters predicted we’d see a slight increase in retail sales in July, but instead, Census Bureau data released this morning revealed a significant...
TikTok excluded millions from crucial safety guardrails
This story includes discussion of suicide.
Back in 2021, TikTok tweaked its algorithm in an effort to address dangerous filter bubbles — a sort...
The mood among small businesses
We have the latest reading on how small businesses are feeling in this economy, courtesy of the National Federation of Independent Business's Small Bu...
AI subscriptions are rapidly taking over baby nurseries
Remember those grainy old baby monitors? So passé. Today, the modern nursery can be equipped with HD cameras and biometric sensors — all analyzed with...
Senate will wait for new rules on crypto
Over the weekend, the U.S. Senate adjourned for its August recess without passing the “Clarity Act,” which would change the way cryptocurrencies would...
Substack CEO on the platform’s new AI detector
Substack, the platform popular for online newsletters, recently launched an artificial intelligence detection feature powered by Pangram.
The d...
Signs of strain in the labor market
The latest jobs report for July is out. The economy lost 23,000 jobs last month, but analysts were expecting more than 80,000 jobs to be created. This...
Gig workers train humanoids on household chores
Is your shirt-folding technique good enough to train a robot how to do it? Could MySpace be creeping back into our browsers? We get into all this on t...
The job losses that won't show up in jobless claims
We got the latest reading of jobless claims today. Last week, 199,000 people filed for first-time unemployment claims. Thing is, there were large-scal...
Abigail Disney: “There is such a thing as too much money”
How were you raised to think about money, and how do you know when the values you inherited no longer fit? What do we owe other people, and when is ge...
AI chatbots have linguistic slips when they go off-script
Let’s say you're chatting away with AI — perfect grammar, great vocabulary. Then, boom: a random word in another language! That's the topic for today'...
Let's check in on construction jobs
The Associated General Contractors of America recently issued a report that finds job gains in the building trade are uneven, with residential constru...
Almost Midnight, from "The Midnight Rebellion"
From WBUR, here's a new kind of story, one that's all about the big questions and decisions we face. “The Midnight Rebellion” is a pick-your-own-path...
AI-driven law could be an answer to accessible legal help
AI has already changed the legal field, bringing new efficiencies — along with some high-profile mistakes — to tasks like research and drafting contra...