Segments From This Episode

• What Walmart and Home Depot’s rising sales say about consumer sentiment

  by Justin Ho

  

  Walmart customers are thinking about rising prices. Home Depot customers are thinking about rising interest rates.

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• What might new leadership at ERCOT mean for the troubled Texas power grid?

  by Andy Uhler

  

  The Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ new CEO has experience working under a different power pricing model — a capacity market.

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• Heat waves perilous for delivery truck drivers

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  The workday of a package delivery driver is never easy. High temperatures and humidity make them worse.

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• Remote workers have stayed in Truckee, California, but not the local workforce

  by Matt Levin

  

  Skyrocketing housing costs are driving out the local labor force, leaving all kinds of businesses in the small town short-staffed.

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• At some universities, tenure may become a thing of the past. That could have an economic impact.

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  Academics want it. Critics want to restrict it. The issue could affect a state’s ability to recruit educators.

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• Ice cream trucks struggle despite the heat

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  Ice cream trucks are raising prices to keep up with increasing costs. That’s putting a chill in sales, Christina Morales of The New York Times reports.

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