On today’s show: the finances of USPS, the fine print of November retail sales and the supper club’s great comeback.
Most people like their health insurance … wait, what? We’ll dig into what the research says.
From the BBC World Service: The rebels running Syria are assuring the country’s business community that they will embrace a free market economy.
A fresh poll of academic economists finds more think interest rates will stay higher for longer. We’ll discuss why that is.
New data shows that the average monthly mortgage payment for those buying a home today is about 75% higher than in 2019.
From the BBC World Service: The $4.5 billion takeover of the 500-year-old British institution by Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group has been given the go-ahead.
We’ll unpack a recent New York Times op-ed written by the head of UnitedHealth Group acknowledging the need to fix American health care.
This week, another 1,000 Amazon workers voted to join the Teamsters union at an air freight operation in San Bernardino, California.
From the BBC World Service: The head of NATO has said member countries need to spend more on defense.
Prescriptions for Wegovy have doubled and prescriptions for Zepbound have tripled in the past year.
