Segments From This Episode

• Furloughs turning into permanent layoffs as pandemic drags on

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  Job losses are moving past lockdown-hit businesses to other sectors that were doing fine for a while.

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• Retailers go “conservative”

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  Going into the fall and the holidays, retailers are being cautious about what they buy.

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• Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on culture, competition and what keeps him up at night

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  “The threats that get you are the substitution threats,” Netflix’s co-founder and CEO said.

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• Ulta beckons consumers back to buying beauty products

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Shutdowns and working from home have changed the market for personal care products during the pandemic.

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• “Tenet” took in $146m worldwide. So …. is that great? Or terrible?

  by Jasmine Garsd

  

  The action thriller cost over $200 million to make, opened in over 2000 US theaters over the weekend, making back just a fraction in what’s typically the make or break weekend

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• Angela Merkel’s economic legacy: strong growth, ailing infrastructure

  

  As the German leader approaches the end of her long tenure in office, we assess her achievements and the challenges facing her country after her departure.

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