Segments From This Episode

• Boingo’s CEO figured out how to monetize "free" Wi-Fi

  by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

  

  David Hagan explains how the company went from charging $74.95 a month to giving away the service and still stayed in business.

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• Health insurers are looking for a little certainty

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  Assuring subsidies for low-income people could help stabilize the market, the CEO of an industry lobbying group says.

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• While the Dow spikes, the dollar falls

  by Marielle Segarra

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 22,000 for the first time today, thanks in part to strong corporate profits. But while all eyes are on the Dow, less attention is being paid to another measure of the U.S. economy: the strength of the dollar. The greenback has dropped 10 percent since January. Why? And what […]

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• U.S. considering action against China over trade

  by Ryan Kailath

  The White House is planning to investigate China for unfair trade practices — specifically over intellectual property, or IP. U.S. companies that want to do business in China often have to turn over their IP in order to do so — plans, blueprints and technical specifications. The longstanding allegation is that Chinese companies then steal […]

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• Venezuela’s debt could give China and Russia an oil market edge

  by Scott Tong

  As chaos in Venezuela continues, the Trump administration has imposed sanctions on President Nicolás Maduro and is threatening an embargo on Venezuelan oil. But that could backfire: if Washington pushes hard enough, Venezuela could go belly up on its debt, and that debt is owned in large part by Russia and China. The U.S. doesn’t want […]

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• Eurozone hopes PIIGS may fly

  

  Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain show signs of economic recovery.

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