Segments From This Episode

• Consumers are spending on services again as the pandemic shopping spree for goods cools

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  People want to get outside and do stuff, not just buy stuff. That’s reflected in surging travel bookings — and airfare.

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• Summer jobs are plentiful. Applicants are not.

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  Summer tourism industries continue to face a worker shortage and climbing wages. Teenagers, especially, are in demand.

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• Why are there still so few houses for sale?

  by Matt Levin

  

  Sellers who don’t want to become buyers and the refinancing craze play roles in the lack of supply.

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• Why the U.S. stopped researching gun violence: “It’s a thing that has set us back decades”

  by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban

  

  John Woodrow Cox of The Washington Post explains how a 1996 legal provision effectively halted research on gun violence.

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• Is European resolve against Russia’s war beginning to soften?

  

  The EU has just unveiled a punitive ban on oil imports from Russia — but the Ukrainian government is unimpressed.

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• Need a CT scan? You may have to wait weeks, thanks to lockdowns in China and dye shortages

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Because of COVID-19 restrictions, a critical Shanghai plant that produces the dye has been operating at reduced capacity for weeks.

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