Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap: Biden's economic plan

  “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks with Bloomberg’s Jordyn Holman and The New York Times’ Jeanna Smialek about President-elect Joe Biden’s stimulus plan and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s latest remarks on future monetary policy.

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• Big banks’ profits are doing better than the economy

  by Justin Ho

  

  They’ve been raking in money thanks to the strong stock market, companies’ appetite for debt and initial public offerings.

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• Trump administration ends push to restructure Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

  by Amy Scott

  

  A plan to return the mortgage giants to private control was complicated by the pandemic’s economic risks.

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• “Civil society is much more fragile than I think Americans appreciate,” says outgoing FCC Chair Ajit Pai

  by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios

  

  Pai says Congress needs to legislate rules so that agency regulations, like net neutrality, don’t swing with the leader’s political affiliation.

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• Vehicle sales tell story of separate economic realities

  by Erika Beras

  

  The average selling price of new vehicles reached a record high in late 2020. Last year also saw vehicle loan debt increase to record levels.

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