Every weekday, host Kai Ryssdal helps you make sense of the day’s business and economic news — no econ degree or finance background required. “Marketplace” takes you beyond the numbers, bringing you context. Our team of reporters all over the world speak with CEOs, policymakers and regular people just trying to get by.
176 episodes transcribedIt’s a cautionary tale: Boeing was known for its reliably constructed aircraft. But when outsourcing for the sake of the bottom line went too fa...
The United States is the biggest importer and second-biggest exporter in the world. So if the dockworker strike lasts, some sectors may have to look f...
Medicare, Pell Grants and the Immigration Act of 1965 were all passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson. Several important government agencies were fo...
About 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike today over pay, yes, but also the automation of their jobs. We tak...
Sept. 30 marks the end of a yearlong grace period that came after a several yearslong pause on student loan repayments. Starting tomorrow, missing a p...
Disposable income was up 0.2% in August from July, the latest personal consumption expenditures report shows. It’s good news that income is outp...
Good job, everyone! We’re working harder — or at least, more efficiently. Despite a cooling labor market, we’re producing more product per...
The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is 6% right now — a better deal than 8%, which is where rates were a year ago. But home prices have grown...
Last week’s interest rate cut was supposed lower borrowing costs across the economy. But there’s been a surprising coda: The interest rate...
There’s a good chance you’ve used a computer powered by Intel — it’s a longtime Silicon Valley giant. But rival chipmaker Qualcomm i...
Ever wanted to burn up physical manifestations of the year’s heart-wrenching grief and financial dread in a 50-foot-tall, marionette-shaped effi...
Interest rates fell in the wake of yesterday’s cut by the Federal Reserve — kinda. Truth is, most lenders had anticipated this move for a while...
Federal Reserve policymakers met this week and announced they’re cutting interest rates by half a percentage point. That’s meant to buoy t...
Since the COVID pandemic started, you’ve been shopping online more, right? Though consumer spending remained relatively stable over the past yea...
For years, global oil demand has ticked up, mostly thanks to China’s voracious consumption. But real estate trouble combined with widespread ele...
Everyone’s favorite aircraft manufacturer is back in the news — 30,000 Boeing machinist union members are on strike over pay. Typically, flyers...
Today in Econ 101, we’re talking yield curve. In a typical economy, the longer a bond’s duration, the more interest it yields. The inverse...
Annual inflation, according to the consumer price index, fell to a multiyear low in August. That’s great, but we’re still half a percentag...
Since 1970, Amtrak has run U.S. passenger rail service and — per a formal agreement with private railroad companies — those passenger trains get prefe...
When the August consumer price index is released Wednesday, it’ll be the final major inflation report before the Federal Reserve’s policym...
