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.
211 episodes transcribedNew data shows that while consumer spending is strong, Americans aren’t saving like they used to. But the pandemic made year-to-year comparisons...
Why is the U.S. dollar losing steam? The short version: Falling demand for the currency drags its value down. Since the Federal Reserve is likely to c...
What if every American household and business had access to high-speed internet? That’s what the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment progra...
Roughly 200,000 Kentucky households lack internet access or are “underserved,” according to Meghan Sandfoss, executive director of the sta...
Bringing high-speed internet access to every U.S. household is one goal of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. To do that, we’re gonna need a lot...
In this century, reliable internet access isn’t just a want — for many, it’s a need. The federal government is spending billions to bring...
For many old hotels and motels, the most reliable guests may be ghosts in the attic. Unfortunately, they’re not paying the nightly rate. Worse,...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just revised its count of new jobs created between March of last year and March of this year. Although revisions are ro...
The gap between median household income and median income for homebuyers in the U.S. has been growing, putting housing affordability in its “wor...
When consumers can’t afford what they used to, many are drawn to inexpensive luxuries. Take the so-called lipstick index: When the economy slump...
The presidential campaign has been full of economic promises. Do you pick the contender vowing to reduce food costs and invest in housing? Or the one...
Even though unemployment has bumped up, retail sales are going strong. Consumers spent $7 billion more in July than in June, the Census Bureau reporte...
For the first time in years, the consumer price index — one measure of inflation — fell below 3%. That’s good for Americans and the Federal Rese...
When you think “high prices,” you might think of stressed family budgets. But small businesses have to pay up too. Nevertheless, small-bus...
Last week, when the stock market took a tumble, some investors put their cash into bonds instead. Why? Well, we tend to think of the stock and bond ma...
A lot of folks like to weigh in on what the Federal Reserve should do with interest rates; Donald Trump said this week that if he were to reoccupy the...
The back-to-school shopping season is well underway. But with stubborn high prices in this economy, how will parents get their kids ready without feel...
Since the 1970s, the Federal Reserve has been officially tasked with a dual mandate: keeping prices stable and maximizing employment. But has the Fed...
How are people feeling about the economy after the dramatic drop in stocks? They’re “Googling the word ‘recession’ like crazy,...
These aren’t words you want to hear about the stock market, but here we are. Global markets, including the major U.S. indexes, tanked today. Alo...
