Segments From This Episode

• What GM workers are thinking as they join picket lines

  by Tracey Samuelson

  

  “We’re getting little pennies compared to [GM executives],” one worker told Marketplace’s Tracey Samuelson.

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• Food cannons and goat yoga: Farmers get creative for profits

  by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser

  

  In troubled trade times, anything to bring business to the farm.

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• Juul struggles to secure research on the effects vaping has on health

  by Blake Farmer

  

  With vaping under intense scrutiny and a deadline of May 2020 to apply for FDA approval, the company is under pressure.

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• Oil prices rise on Mideast risk assessment

  by Scott Tong

  

  The 14% spike, following a weekend attack on a key Saudi oil production facility, reflects what traders consider a “Gulf premium” based on new oil supply risks.

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• Will spiking oil prices tip us into a global recession?

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  Probably not, says Roberto Perli of the economic policy research firm Cornerstone Macro.

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• Oil infrastructure limits ability of U.S. to quickly ramp up exports

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  Problems like shallow shipping channels are one reason the U.S., despite being the world’s biggest oil producer, is not its biggest exporter.

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