Segments From This Episode

• Amid urbanization and expense, hunting declines as a hobby

  by Blake Farmer

  

  Fewer Americans are hunting as a hobby, but those that are still hunting, are spending more money doing it.

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• Keep an eye on bonds, not the stock market

  Alan Greenspan is warning in an interview with Bloomberg that we are in a bubble, a bond market bubble. The former Fed Chairman is concerned that inflation might surprise us and bond prices might fall sharply at some point in the near future. Here’s why that would be a disruptive thing. Click the audio player […]

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• You don’t need to be a college grad to work in tech

  by Kai Ryssdal, Bridget Bodnar and Emily Henderson

  

  IBM has a special program to hire people without four-year degrees.

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• Detroit carmakers cut production amid sales slump

  by Adam Allington

  July sales are down across the board for the Detroit Three automakers, 15.5 percent for GM, 10 percent for Chrysler and 7.5 percent for Ford. That makes seven straight months of declines for the U.S. auto industry at large. Now, considering the last two years basically broke every kind of sales record in the books, […]

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• Does Snap’s stock market performance mean we have valuations all wrong?

  by Kai Ryssdal

  There’s something of a disconnect happening between what’s known as the private market — what companies are worth before they go public — and what those companies are worth once they have their initial public offering. Examples A and B today are the meal kit delivery service Blue Apron and Spap of Snapchat fame. The companies’ stocks haven’t […]

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• Wells Fargo scandals could mean sweeping consequences

  by Annie Baxter

  First, there was a scandal over millions of fake Wells Fargo accounts that broke last year. Then, accusations of changes to mortgages without notifying customers. Now, Wells Fargo faces a class-action lawsuit over selling car insurance policies to hundreds of thousands of customers who did not need it from 2012 to 2017. All this could […]

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