Segments From This Episode

• Business inventories went up between December and January. That’s not normal.

  by Justin Ho

  

  Part of the problem is our old friend, the congested supply chain.

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• Corporate investors remain bullish on real estate market

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Corporations bought a record share of homes last year and can make it hard for regular homebuyers to compete.

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• Job openings — and resignations — still at historic highs

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  26 million people quit their jobs over the past six months. In December, employers had about as many jobs open as they ever have.

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• BBC’s funding system under fire amid viewership changes, Conservatives’ hostility

  

  Boris Johnson’s government may scrap the national license fee that’s funded the UK broadcaster for generations.

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• In Ukraine, the Russian invasion scare could be keeping out foreign investors

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  The threat undermines “Ukraine’s position on international markets” said the Atlantic Council’s Peter Dickinson. “Companies can’t finance themselves.”

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• Indigenous workers have been hit hard by COVID-19. But Friday’s jobs report won’t reflect that.

  by Savannah Peters

  

  American Indians and Alaska Natives aren’t included in the monthly report, so they are often left out of discussions on economic well-being in the U.S.

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