Correspondent & Host
Sabri is a correspondent and host for Marketplace based in New York City. He has many, many plants.
The U.S. is in a quiet race driven by national and economic security to reestablish a domestic supply chain for rare earth elements.
Economists expect the U.S. to surpass the GDP we’d have seen if COVID-19 hadn’t happened. But many still wait for jobs to come back.
Semiconductors are in almost everything, including military equipment, and we don’t have enough of them.
Demand for new U.S. homes is at a record high, and existing homes are old and need repairs.
Will we see prices rising into 2022? And would larger-than-expected spikes in inflation be noticeable to consumers?
“Culture doesn’t come for free,” one professor told us. “You have to keep feeding it.”
This explosion didn’t happen just because everyone was stuck at home. It started before the pandemic.
On Twitter, the White House Council of Economic Advisers says a coming uptick in inflation may not last.
The U.S. government is concerned about the national security risks in Chinese companies buying American companies.
Infrastructure adds to gross domestic product, but interest rates can take away from it.
