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.
434 episodes transcribedThe Supreme Court’s ruling Monday expanded presidential power over agencies that would traditionally be viewed as independent, with the Feder...
Economists are forecasting that AI is likely to cause prices to rise over the course of the next year. On Thursday, both Microsoft and Apple...
Inflation was up 4.1% in May, according to the BEA’s personal consumption expenditures index. We know hot energy prices, resulting from the w...
When the U.S. launched a war against Iran, some Wall Street traders bet the ensuing energy shortages would push inflation up. Now that a ceas...
A typical starter home in nearly 250 U.S. cities is now worth $1 million or more, according to Zillow. Is that even a starter home anymore? I...
The last time Austan Goolsbee voted in an FOMC meeting, he was one of two policymakers opposed to cutting interest rates. Six months later, h...
As high interest rates tamp down homebuying demand, more homebuilders are offering free appliances or upgraded hardware to sweeten the deal....
Kevin Warsh held his first press conference as Fed chair on Wednesday, and — unlike his precedessor — did not say what the central bank plans...
Retail sales were up 0.9% in May, which is a generally positive economic sign. But it doesn’t square with our reality, in which price inflati...
Nvidia just joined the likes of Amazon and Alphabet in selling off billions of dollars in bonds. What do these tech giants need help financin...
Nuclear energy can lower one cost that has seen rapid inflation in recent years: electricity bills. But nuclear power plants aren’t cheap to...
Today, we’re featuring an episode from the new season of “How We Survive.” Could dimming the sun be the key to cooling things down before the...
SpaceX went public Friday, with much pomp and circumstance. Investors are already buying and selling the company’s stock — well, some investo...
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but all three economists we asked say gas prices are due for another hike this summer. The war in Iran con...
The May CPI report dropped Wednesday and it’s a doozy: Inflation rose 4.2% over the last 12 months. This means wallet pressure is bearing dow...
Bank of America advised investors late last week that too many red flags pointed to a market peak, and that it was time to “take profits.” In...
Averages wages grew 3.4% year over year, but at the same time, inflation as measured by the consumer price index, has been eating away at tho...
Growing health insurance premiums, particularly for plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace, have been in the headlines as cuts to Medic...
Oil inventories have fallen drastically since President Trump launched the war against Iran. But it’s not because we’re suddenly using more f...
For a while now, we’ve talked to small business owners who say they want to hire more employees, but aren’t in a financial position to do it,...
