What Bossier City in Louisiana can tell us about the rise of energy prices
Marketplace Morning Report
English - November 16, 2021 15:15 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 748 ratingsBusiness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The spike in natural gas prices has spurred many companies to make sure they’re set up to reap the benefits. We check in with Marketplace’s Andy Uhler, who’s reporting from Bossier City in Louisiana, an area that became a nexus of fracking more than a decade ago. We discuss how that area can illustrate the activity around the rise of energy prices. Drew Matus of MetLife Investment Management helps us interpret the retail numbers from the Department of Commerce. An Ohio public employee pension fund is suing Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The fund claims Meta misled the public about the potential harmful effects of Facebook and Instagram.