Segments From This Episode

• Quarterly bank earnings may tell a bigger story about the U.S. economy right now

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Banks touch many sectors of the economy, that may be struggling — or thriving — during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• China announces sanctions on U.S. politicians as tensions over human rights, COVID-19 escalate

  China late last week had promised to retaliate after the U.S. announced sanctions on senior Chinese officials. This has to do with the treatment of the Uighur Muslims. Marketplace’s Nova Safo has more.

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• What if delivery vans took your stuff away instead of dropping off packages?

  by David Brancaccio, Meredith Garretson Morbey and Rose Conlon

  

  A fiction writer’s surreal take on the COVID-19 economy imagines a world where delivery vans arrive and confiscate your things.

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