Segments From This Episode

• New trading restrictions for top Fed officials

  Rachel Siegel, business reporter at the Washington Post, joins Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal to chat about the Fed’s new rules banning top policymakers from owning and trading individual stocks and bonds.

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• Carbon offsets can be tough to get right

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  If you can’t pollute less, pay someone else to pollute less for you. Carbon offsets sound simple but are complicated in practice.

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• In the transition to renewables, energy storage is a hot topic

  by Andy Uhler

  

  When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, how can we store power to use when they aren’t?

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• Were tribal government COVID relief funds fairly distributed?

  by Savannah Peters

  

  The American Rescue Plan earmarked $20 billion for tribal governments. But the allocation formula favored a handful of tribes.

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• It's a tight, tight, tight, tight labor market

  Elizabeth Crofoot, senior economist at the Conference Board, and Erica Groshen, former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, chat about a labor market that is tightening and in flux.

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• Pandemic puts more rental properties in private equity hands

  by Caroline Champlin

  

  Investment firms might be able to pay more for renovations, but critics say they accelerate evictions.

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• Is racist housing policy the real villain in “Candyman”?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Richard Cunningham

  

  Brentin Mock of Bloomberg CityLab says Candyman represents what bad, racist housing policy created and what gentrification tries to erase.

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