Week of August 3rd, 2020

But this happy hour episode isn’t a total bummer. We’ll also dig into Phil Collins’ masterpiece, “In the Air Tonight.”

Plus: the latest on President Trump’s potential ban on Chinese apps, why Kodak was tapped to help make coronavirus treatments and how one family is getting through months in lockdown.

The South Dakota rally, now in its 80th year, has been scaled back, with no parades or contests. But about 250,000 are expected to gather.

The Trump administration has given Kodak hundreds of millions of dollars to produce chemicals for COVID-19 treatments. But the venerable photography company will have to compete with a global supply chain.

President Trump’s executive order restricts Chinese tech platforms. Correspondent Jennifer Pak discusses the future of competition in developing markets.

Service-sector jobs are coming back, but professionals who’ve been working from home are facing layoffs.

TikTok has responded with fury to further pressure from the U.S. government against Chinese tech apps. And, we hear from the Greek islands, so reliant on tourism, which are offering travelers socially distanced vacations.

The president says Canada is flooding the U.S. with imported aluminum and undercutting American companies.

These orders mean that in 45 days, transactions with WeChat or TikTok from American persons or companies would be banned.

There were 1.8 million jobs added last month, 200,000 more than economists expected. The numbers aren’t quite as positive if you dig deeper. Plus, the Trump administration acts — on Chinese companies and Canadian aluminum.

Regulators want access to financial audits of Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges.

Making the technological revolution more accessible, building a sustainable future and creating more jobs and a healthier populace while doing it.

The case for a job guarantee, the future of the labor movement, working in the gig economy and more.

Amid the wreckage of 2020, are there opportunities to fix what was already broken, including the system of human relationships we call the economy?

The Trump administration tells Chinese companies to open their books to U.S. auditors or else leave U.S. exchanges. The effects of long-term unemployment. And, our special report “The Economy Reimagined.”

Traditionally, employers question big gaps in work history. But because of the pandemic, they may be more understanding.

Late Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order, banning the social media app TikTok in 45 days.

That’s Molly and Kimberly’s message to you this Thursday. Take good care.

Plus: The recording industry’s legacy of exploiting Black artists, the decline in household debt and how robots can help with distance learning.

Credit card debt was down by $76 billion in the second quarter, the steepest decline in card balances since tracking started.

Burning excess natural gas can be less costly than figuring out a way to use it, but the practice spurs climate change and hurts air quality.

The Black Nation app started as a directory, and is now a social platform.

Why various estimates of joblessness don’t seem to add up.

To get a new bike, this 11-year-old signed a contract to do the thing he hates most: math.

Milk prices have been volatile with the trade war and now the coronavirus pandemic, and dairy farmers are stretched thin.

Labels have long been accused of racist, exploitative practices toward artists. Some now pledge to support social justice and diversify executive ranks.

Trying to get a sense of how hiring and rehiring is going. Plus, tomorrow is the self-imposed deadline for a deal on more pandemic relief. How altered college sports schedules will affect small-town economies. Supply chains suffer in 2020.

Cyberattacks, trade disputes, the coronavirus, natural disasters — it is exceedingly difficult to manage a complex web of business relationships

It’s evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as the weekly federal jobless payment has expired.

The rationale is that the U.S. needs “clean networks” to guard Americans’ data and the secrets of U.S. companies.

The Trump administration is taking more steps to try to build a technology wall against Chinese companies. Uber reports earnings on Thursday — what changes has it had to make during the pandemic? And, California considers new legislation on recycling.

Lebanon’s economy minister said the country would have to rely at least partly on foreign aid to rebuild. One year since Kashmir lost so-called special economic status, has the Indian government kept its promises about boosting the region’s business opportunities?

The Circular Economy bill is supported by hundreds of organizations. But the California Chamber of Commerce opposes it.

As its ride-sharing business declined, the company pivoted to delivery.

Business owners in Maryville, Missouri, and Baldwin City, Kansas, say college athletics help their bottom lines.

There are laws that protect our medical data and financial information, but there’s none protecting addresses or phone numbers.

We’ll talk about it on this week’s Whadda Ya Wanna Know Wednesday. Plus: contact tracing, supply shockwaves and alpacas.

Companies are finding ways to soften the pandemic’s blow to their bottom lines.

Plus: The market for caregivers who have survived COVID-19, the ongoing legal battle over gig worker classification and how “creative accounting” works.

The issue has big implications for workers’ access to safety net benefits that have become crucial during the pandemic.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States screens deals for national security risks.

As families turn to nannies for child care, some are screening candidates by whether they’ve had COVID-19, hoping they won’t bring the virus into the home.

In her new book, “Caste,” Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson compares America to an “old house” where “the work is never done, and you don’t expect it to be.”

Without federal unemployment benefits, “the economy tanks.”

The explosion killed at least 100 people, wounded 4,000 and caused between $3 billion and $5 billion in damage. U.S. private payrolls added fewer jobs than expected in July. The U.S. and China reportedly plan to review their trade deal.

They’re more and more becoming one-stop shops for people who want to consolidate shopping trips.

In addition to coronavirus relief aid, Congress has another issue to attend to: the national budget. Plus, President Trump signs the Great American Outdoors Act. And, the role of the pharmacy store is changing during the pandemic.

Fears for food security in Lebanon with the main port destroyed, in a country where almost 80% of consumer goods are imported. Also, did Sweden’s approach to COVID-19 help protect its economy better than the rest of Europe?

Pizza chains and others that allow for social distancing have done especially well. Those that depend on breakfast haven’t.

Congress has to fund the government for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1 — and it’s slow going.

Google is hoping to train journalists from underrepresented groups to start and run their own digital media companies.

Today on the show, we talk “radical reduction” with Atlantic staff writer George Packer.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, has grown in influence over the years.

A look at how businesses on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin will be affected.

Plus: pay disparities in the video game industry, CEOs put pressure on Congress and a view from a college campus preparing to reopen.

There have been charges of pay disparities, discrimination and harassment.

That leaves them restricted access to capital, according to a study by the New York Fed.

Over 100 current and former corporate leaders sign a letter urging Congress to provide more relief to a huge sector that includes many of their suppliers and customers.

Microsoft can “go ahead” with efforts to buy TikTok, Trump said, so long as the U.S. Treasury pockets “a substantial amount of money.”

Competitive athletic programs are vital to collegiate economics, one expert says. Local businesses depend on them, too.

Manufacturing is not only up but growing. Plus, President Trump wants the U.S. government to get a cut of any American deal with TikTok. And, research on hits to the health care industry and how that affects the wider economy.

The employer-provided health insurance losses projected to come could cost the U.S. economy another 1.5 million to 2.5 million jobs.

That includes an eviction moratorium and a payroll tax cut.

The industry has had to change how it prepares products, pivoting from places like restaurants and arenas to grocery stores.

President Trump is proposing bringing back the eviction moratorium and enacting a payroll tax cut through executive orders. Tyson Foods has a new CEO. And, we hear from the unemployed people in this country who still have not gotten payments.

The oil giant BP has reported a record quarterly loss of $6.7 billion. Plus, $3,500 fines for people breaching COVID-19 restrictions in Melbourne, Australia. And, Ghana offers Americans of African ancestry the opportunity to move.

The University of Chicago is connecting election officials with cybersecurity experts.

Why do things cost what they cost? And what makes people willing to pay the price? Turns out, at least when it comes to pizza, there’s a lot more to it than just dough, sauce and cheese.

Plus: What is actually happening with TikTok?

The nature of the economic crisis resulting from the pandemic means we know little about how to deal with its aftermath.

Plus: the pressures on this economy, the disconnect facing students this fall and what’s going on with the White House, Microsoft and TikTok.

There is no federal standard for unemployment benefits, so states create their own rules.

In the tech world, Microsoft is seen as the serious company that does grown-up stuff, so why does it want the social media platform?

Tailored Brands and Lord & Taylor join list of retail brands that filed for bankruptcy. There is little need for business attire when offices are empty.

A landlord in Kenya is helping his tenants get through the coronavirus crisis by suspending rent payments.

The owner of one fine-dining restaurant in California opened a new eatery during the pandemic as a takeout operation.

Federal government loans are helping some states continue paying jobless benefits, and some still feel the effects of the Great Recession.

Is it all bad news that the U.S. dollar is down? Still no agreement to extend additional unemployment aid. U.S. action on Chinese companies may go beyond TikTok. And, amid calls for more police accountability, body cameras get more attention.

Activists were worried investors would abandon investing based on social and environmental goals.

A leaked memo from ByteDance’s CEO to its staff says TikTok has no choice but to sell its U.S. operations.

Last week, President Trump threatens to ban TikTok. Now, Microsoft says it’s in talks to take over the app’s U.S. operations. Where do things stand? Plus, Disney earnings this week. And, social impact investing is alive and well.

Body cameras have become a point of debate over police accountability.

Microsoft has confirmed that it is continuing talks to purchase the U.S. operations of TikTok. HSBC sees profits plunge amid protests in Hong Kong. And, two years after a deadly bridge collapse in Genoa, the Italian city has a replacement.

COVID-19 hurt its cruise and theme park businesses, but the company is also capitalizing on the “stay-at-home” market with its streaming service.

In June, sales of video games were up 26% from a year earlier. But online harassment has been a problem in gaming for years.