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Sep 9, 2019

You shouldn’t make trades based on Trump’s tweets

… But those tweets do affect markets. Plus: dispatches from the supposed “worst place to live in America,” and is bigger still better for American companies?

A television monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows President Donald Trump in 2017.
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Segments From This Episode

Could the future of farming lie below ground?
Stephen Beard/Marketplace
Growing Underground, an English startup, is focused on sustainable and intensive crop production in a former air raid shelter in London.
Why this Washington Post reporter crossed the urban-rural divide
by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Courtesy of Christopher Ingraham
Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham once called Red Lake County, Minnesota the “worst place to live in America.” Now? He lives there.
The complex relationship between workers and expense reports
by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Most workers avoid filling-out their expenses, but they shouldn’t.
How tariffs leave businesses stuck in the middle
by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
“It’s a very helpless feeling,” said auto parts executive Kevin Feig, on being subject to tariffs.