Marketplace All-in-One
4,094 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsMarketplace® 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, Marketplace Morning Report®and Marketplace Tech® along with our podcasts Make Me Smart, Corner Office and The Uncertain Hour. Visit marketplace.org for more. From American Public Media. Twitter: @Marketplace
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Holiday hiring hustle and bustle
November 15, 2019 23:41 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBHoliday shopping season is upon us, and many retailers are rushing to hire seasonal workers. Today, we look at how companies decide how much extra help they need and what happens when they get it wrong. Plus, what you need to know about the Trump administration’s push for transparent hospital pricing, and as always, we do the Weekly Wrap.
It’s a marathon, not a Sprint-T-Mobile merger
November 15, 2019 16:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBWe look at the trade deal that never was and underwhelming retail numbers. Colin Kaepernick will try out to return to the NFL after being sidelined for his on-the-field protests against police brutality. Plus, why is this Sprint-T-Mobile taking so long?
With a “Chill” section and selfie studio, this isn’t your mother’s Penney’s
November 15, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBAmazon sues the Pentagon over its decision to go with Microsoft for its cloud computing. J.C. Penney reimagines its stores with less stuff… and more “chill.” Plus, looking at the world of private equity through the eyes of an anthropologist.
Instagram influencers can still fake it till you make it
November 15, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC World Service… The world’s longest passenger flight touches down in Sydney and we were on board for the 19-hour ride. Resentment about the rising cost of living is still simmering a year after France’s Yellow Vest protests. Plus, making the big bucks from selfies posted on Instagram is now a full-blown industry, but becoming an influencer is not for everyone.
Could sharing health data with Big Tech be a good thing?
November 15, 2019 11:30 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBThe world learned this week that Google is amassing health data from millions of Americans via a contract with the huge health care system Ascension. As trust in tech companies seems to continue ebbing, concerns about the “Project Nightingale” contract seem inevitable. But maybe this data gathering isn’t something we should feel too freaked out about. To find out, host Jack Stewart speaks with Deven McGraw, an attorney who was formerly a HIPAA enforcer at the U.S. Department of Health and Hu...
A year after the Camp Fire, life is still on hold
November 15, 2019 00:00 - 27 minutes - 11.8 MBLast November’s Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history. Given the massive scale of what was lost, there are thousands of survivors who still need serious financial help to put their lives back together. But getting that help takes a long time and requires staying on top of paperwork and deadlines. The most important of those deadlines just passed, and some estimates indicate thousands of people with claims missed it. Plus: A conversation with the head...
Love thy neighbor, and pay off their debts, too
November 14, 2019 22:23 - 24 minutes - 11.8 MBAn aspiring dancer finds a way to become debt-free. All she has to do is take on someone else’s.
Is the visa process deterring international students?
November 14, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBThe Fed’s inflation targets might be leaving lower-income Americans out of the equation. Plus, international students are finding the visa process difficult to navigate, and it may be to the detriment of American colleges.
Tariffs were a port decision
November 14, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBEscalating violence during protests in Hong Kong have paralyzed the local economy as the region officially enters recession. Despite President Trump’s claims to the contrary, tariffs are hurting business at U.S. ports. Plus, low inflation figures isn’t jibing with all this news of low unemployment.
“China is the Wakanda of online payments”
November 14, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC World Service… Germany narrowly avoids recession. China is light years ahead of Google when it comes to online payments. Plus, Sweden sets an example when it comes to closing the gender pay gap.
Winning the self-driving race means lots of tech support
November 14, 2019 11:30 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MBThere’s a lot of money being poured into the self-driving space right now. Building a robot driver capable of fully replacing a human on the wheel is a mission that has everything that Silicon Valley loves: a lot of tech and a huge potential prize. Tradition has it that you have to win the race to take any of the prize. But companies are increasingly realizing that they might not get there alone. To see what that means in practice, Marketplace’s Jack Stewart took a trip to Arizona, where sev...
Today’s *other* big Congressional testimony
November 14, 2019 06:34 - 28 minutes - 11.8 MBWhile you were busy watching the impeachment hearings, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell was testifying before Congress with a warning: While a Recession is less likely now than it was earlier in the year, current fiscal policy and national debt isn’t ready for a downturn. Today, we’ll catch you up. Plus: A conversation with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the rise of “Porch Pirates.” Yarr.
Flight shame gives way to the night train
November 13, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBInflation ticked up in October, but rest assured. The Fed chair appears before the Senate economic committee to talk about how those interest rate cuts are going. Plus, flygskam, or “flight shaming,” is forcing some Swedes to opt for alternative, more carbon-friendly modes of transportation; enter the night train.
The US isn’t doing its civics duty
November 13, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBThe Supreme Court hears a case on alleged discrimination against minority-produced content by large media companies. Tesla’s first European factory will be in Berlin. The EPA wants scientists to share confidential data related to climate change. Plus, why does the U.S. spend so little on its students’ civics education?
Are the BRICS still relevant?
November 13, 2019 12:00 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC World Service… Tesla picks Berlin for its first European factory. The man who coined the “BRICS” term examines whether Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have met their economic potential as their annual summit kicks off. Plus, we take a ride on Africa’s first high-speed rail and find out whether locals can actually afford to use the service a year after it was built.
Frictionless payment is easy, but it’s costing consumers
November 13, 2019 11:30 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBToday, it’s almost possible to leave your wallet at home and not pay using your phone. In the not-too distant future, stores could even use facial recognition, or fingerprint scanning, so you don’t even need a device — just grab your items, and walk out. Consumers seem to want this frictionless payment as much as retailers do, but why?
When student athletes play hard, who gets paid?
November 13, 2019 02:05 - 40 minutes - 11.8 MBThe NCAA has been regulating college sports for more than a century, and its ban on student athletes making money from their playing, name and likeness has ostensibly kept the game more “pure.” But pressure has been mounting for years for the NCAA to share some of its billion-dollar business with the athletes that drive it, and a new California law is poised to challenge the old model of “amateurism” in college sports entirely. Today we’re joined by Katelyn Ohashi, a former UCLA gymnast who ...
Are states ready for a recession?
November 13, 2019 00:10 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBThe unemployment rate is at near-record lows, but if that changes, it will mostly fall to states to pay unemployment benefits. That’s what happened in the Great Recession, but many states had to borrow to make up the gap. Plus: What you need to know about Google and health care records, and why banking apps and startups are named things like “Dave” and “Alice.”
On a dream, undeterred
November 12, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBThe Supreme Court takes up the Trump Administration’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. German investors are optimistic about the global economy. Plus, Apple’s allegedly sexist credit card has a lot in common with discriminatory banking algorithms.
Tensions on the southern borders
November 12, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBThe number of Americans who’ve died because they couldn’t afford their medicine has gone up. Google’s parent company moves into the medical data business, but some industry watchers are concerned about privacy. Plus, U.S. immigration policies hit the Mexico-Guatemala border.
Disney Plus might not have a fairy tale outcome in China
November 12, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC World Service… The House of Mouse joins the global streaming wars, but what works in America won’t necessarily translate abroad. Racing giant Formula One pledges to become carbon neutral by 2030. Plus, we travel to Singapore where the city-state is already testing out flying taxis.
Will “artificial scarcity” of library e-books push sales?
November 12, 2019 11:30 - 10 minutes - 11.8 MBSome 94% of libraries offer e-books to borrowers, but now Macmillan, one of the five biggest book publishers in the United States, said it’s going to limit each library to just one copy for the first eight weeks after publication. So get ready for longer waits to borrow them. Jessamyn West, a librarian in Vermont, said it’s reflective of a lot of upheaval in the book world right now.
Rebuilding Paradise
November 11, 2019 23:24 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBThe town of Paradise, California, is still trying to recover from the deadly and destructive Camp Fire that broke out in November 2018, killing 85 people and destroying more than 13,000 homes. In the days and weeks after the fire, residents were worried that big developers would swoop in, buy up the land at a discount and rebuild Paradise in a way that would alter the existing community. Today, we’ll look at how it’s going a year later. Plus: How algorithms determine what you can borrow, how...
Is Apple’s credit card all about the patriarchy?
November 11, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBApple’s credit card is accused denying approval to women while giving it to their less credit-worthy male partners. Troubles in Hong Kong are making investors nervous. Plus, the opportunity the fall of the Berlin Wall gave a young girl from East Germany.
This impeachment brought to you by…
November 11, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBCompanies will probably avoid hocking their products during the televised impeachment proceedings. Online sales on Singles Day hit $8 billion in the space of one minute. Plus, remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years later.
Single’s Day: $1 billion in sales in one minute 8 seconds
November 11, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC World Service… China’s Alibaba is raking in tens of billions of dollars on the world’s biggest online shopping day. Australia’s worst wildfires in a decade head towards its biggest city of Sydney. Plus, Africa’s genetic diversity is being harnessed by the continent’s first commercial “biobank.”
Can artificial intelligence identify guns fast enough to stop violence?
November 11, 2019 11:30 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBSome entrepreneurs think technology can help prevent gun violence. A handful of companies are creating artificial intelligence to identify active shooters. The problem is AI requires a lot of data to learn what is a weapon and what isn’t. One startup is creating its own data by holding film shoots.
WeWork-ers are trying to organize without a union
November 09, 2019 00:17 - 28 minutes - 11.8 MBFormer WeWork head Adam Neumann walked away with a $1.7 billion payout when he was forced out of the company. Now, ahead of the planned layoffs of thousands of workers, WeWork employees are organizing to make demands of management. It’s not the only workplace trying to unlock the power of informal organizing. Plus: The lasting economic legacy of the Berlin Wall and … why is office paper that size, anyway?
Taking success back to school
November 08, 2019 16:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBA possible partial U.S.-China trade deal is driving up interest rates. Spain will hold yet another election as the ruling center-left party fails to form a coalition government. Plus, older people with vast amounts of experience are heading back to top-tier schools. And WeWork employees demand dignity and respect.
They bought some land in Reno, just to watch rents rise
November 08, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBChinese consumers might be shunning American goods on 11/11, Singles Day, as negotiations continue. Electric truck company LMC buys a former GM plant. Plus, how Reno, Nevada became a tech hub after the Great Recession.
The 800 year-old London tradition that has survived the Plague and the Blitz
November 08, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC’s World Service… London’s new Lord Mayor. Huge Brazilian oil fields for sale that almost no one wants to buy. Plus, how demonetization is impacting small business in India.
Microgrids can help us be more energy resilient
November 08, 2019 11:30 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBPG&E has said it could take a decade to upgrade its infrastructure so it’s less likely to spark deadly fires. On Thursday, the utility reported a $1.6 billion loss in the third quarter related to fire charges. A group of California mayors think PG&E should be turned into a publicly owned cooperative utility. Is the answer here just to get off the grid or for utilities to split up into lots of smaller microgrids?
The recession that wasn’t (yet)
November 08, 2019 00:15 - 27 minutes - 11.8 MBThe risk of a possible recession appears to have died down. So what happened? And are regular business owners and consumers feeling any better about the economy? We look into it. Then, what you need to know about Xerox’s offer to acquire HP and other cash and stock deals. Plus: AI isn’t quite here yet, but Black Friday is.
Don’t buy your boss a gift
November 07, 2019 21:09 - 24 minutes - 11.8 MB“Nancy” host Tobin Low and journalist Julia Furlan join us this week to give advice on office gifts, financial independence and more in the latest installment of “The Group Chat.” Got anything you want to run by the group? Tell us at [email protected]
From Russia with LNG
November 07, 2019 16:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBThere’s progress towards a “mini” deal on U.S.-China tariffs ahead of news on consumer confidence. Germany and its neighbors keep pushing the controversial, 760-mile Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline through Russia. Plus, a debrief on Saudi oil giant Aramco’s massive, forthcoming IPO.
When you wish upon a “Star Wars”
November 07, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBFormer Twitter employees are accused of spying for Saudi Arabia. Disney’s theme parks continue to be huge moneymakers. Plus, why the U.S. could benefit from a German-style investment injection.
An economist, a finance minister and a comedian walk into an Irish bar
November 07, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBFrom the BBC World Service… Kilkenomics: an Irish festival where comedy meets economics. Progress in the US-China trade war and a financial win for Australian women’s soccer.
Return of the JEDI contract
November 07, 2019 11:30 - 6 minutes - 11.8 MBAfter a very dramatic bidding process, U.S. Department of Defense last month awarded a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft. Several companies, including Oracle, claimed the process was rigged and that President Donald Trump threatened to personally intervene in the choosing process because he’s been a critic of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Working hard or hardly working?
November 06, 2019 23:52 - 27 minutes - 11.8 MBProductivity was down 0.3% last quarter, which isn’t a seismic change, but it’s part of a downward trend. Americans are working hard, so why are they working in the slow lane? We look into it. Plus: how climate change is affecting the wine industry, why a country short on affordable housing also has millions of vacant homes, and what you aren’t learning in civics class.
The airborne Rx event
November 06, 2019 16:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBThere are rumors of tariff rollbacks from both the U.S. and China. The FCC approves a T-Mobile-Sprint merger. The hunt for President Trump’s tax returns continues in court. Plus, CVS could soon be delivering prescriptions via drone.
Can impeachment lead to a government shutdown?
November 06, 2019 13:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBImpeachment proceedings have the potential to stall budget negotiations to keep the government funded. Plus, what can the U.S. learn from Germany’s reunification to close the American wealth gap.
A game-changing raspberry?
November 06, 2019 12:00 - 7 minutes - 11.8 MBNew British varieties can be grown into Winter. Softbank reports its first loss in 14 years. Plus, revelations of a Boeing whistleblower.
Your “cloud” data is making noise on the ground
November 06, 2019 11:30 - 5 minutes - 11.8 MBAs the amount of data coursing through the internet grows, so does the infrastructure needed to keep all that data flowing. Huge data centers are popping up around the country, but data centers don’t always make good neighbors due to their noise. Bianca Bosker, a contributing writer for The Atlantic, wrote about Chandler, Arizona, where a group of neighbors have taken on data center giant CyrusOne.
Feeling the trade war on the farm
November 06, 2019 00:40 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBWe’re taking the macro and micro angles on the trade war today. First, looking at the factors that caused the U.S. trade deficit to fall more than 4% to $52.5 billion. Then zooming in to look at how farmers in Montana are stinging from the hit on their income caused by trade war. Plus, conversations about carpooling, VCs and the future of banking.
Native Americans and the tech economy
November 06, 2019 00:37 - 31 minutes - 11.8 MBNative Americans have the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the country. Technology, particularly new financial tech, offers an opportunity for this historically marginalized group to better access the strong economy. But getting online in largely rural, remote reservations is a challenge — to say nothing about access to capital and credit. Tribal sovereignty can also make access, taxes and generally doing business more complicated. To help talk us through the challenges and potenti...
Some African universities move away from a “just in case” education
November 05, 2019 16:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBWill a bookish British makeover save Barnes & Noble? Execs from Chinese social media giant TikTok forgo an appearance before U.S. lawmakers. Plus, some colleges in Africa are taking an à la carte approach to education.
Can Apple help alleviate California’s housing crisis?
November 05, 2019 13:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBU.S. stock markets just won’t quit, but, as you know, the stock market is not the economy. Apple invests to fight California’s housing crisis. Plus, Germany’s $2-tillion gambit on the reunification of East and West.
Could vaping go up in smoke?
November 05, 2019 12:00 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBWhat increased scrutiny means for the biggest tobacco brands. Chile’s president won’t resign over protests about living standards. Plus, a new chapter has begun at Barnes and Noble.
Google bought Fitbit for the data, of course
November 05, 2019 11:30 - 10 minutes - 11.8 MBGoogle announced plans to buy Fitbit for more than $2 billion, and make no mistake, it’s not for the wristbands. Last year, it announced an effort to use artificial intelligence to scan electronic health records to make predictions about what might happen with hospitalized patients. Kirsten Ostherr, the director of the Medical Futures Lab and the medical humanities program at Rice University, said Fitbit’s trove of data is all about social determinants.
‘Tis the season (for open enrollment)
November 04, 2019 23:34 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBHalloween’s over, so you know what that means … it’s open enrollment! And this year, the marketplace has more “skinny” health care plans. But one person’s cheap, streamlined coverage package is another person’s “crappy insurance.” Plus: Why the government is concerned about TikTok, Apple’s affordable housing play and making the “perfect” Thanksgiving dinner.