Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap

  Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal talks with Amara Omeokwe at the Wall Street Journal and Kate Davidson at Politico about the dismissal of Britain’s chief finance minister and what persistent inflation will mean for both the economy and monetary policy in the U.S.

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• Inflation may be losing momentum. But not everywhere.

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  Labor Department numbers for September show inflation slowing in some sectors.

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• How would a Kroger-Albertsons merger change grocery prices?

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Kroger would become a bigger competitor against giants like Walmart, giving it more bargaining power over suppliers.

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• Some struggle economically as China’s 20th Communist Party Congress begins

  by Jennifer Pak

  

  Under President Xi Jinping, tech and real estate oversight has tightened, while the private tutoring sector has been flattened.

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• E-bikes are soaring in popularity, but some still have reservations 

  by Kai Ryssdal and Anais Amin

  

  “I find myself looking at the other bikers going slowly and going ‘just get out of my way,’” says Ian Bogost, contributing writer at The Atlantic.

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