Segments From This Episode

• D.C. sues Amazon in antitrust case over how it treats sellers on the platform

  Marketplace’s Nova Safo has more.

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• The market seems to be less worried about inflation this week

  “This week, there seems to be buy-in from investors that the Fed truly is not going to raise interest rates, these increased prices that we’re seeing right now in the economy are just transitory while supply lines get back in line, and, ultimately, things will get back to normal,” said Susan Schmidt, head of U.S. equities at Aviva Investors. We’re seeing that buy-in in the form of the 10-year Treasury yield drifting down, to closer to 1.5%. It’s been as high as 1.7%, Schmidt said. Yields move inversely to prices.

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• COVID unemployment is causing a serious funding issue for Medicare

  by David Brancaccio, Chris Farrell, Erika Soderstrom and Daniel Shin

  

  Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund is projected to become insolvent sooner than expected — within three to five years.

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