Segments From This Episode

• Corporate profits are up 10% over the same quarter last year

  by Justin Ho

  

  Here’s a look at why American companies are making more money, and how they’re spending it.

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• The federal spending bill could make it easier to save for emergencies

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Employers that offer retirement plans would also be able to offer a separate emergency savings plan.

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• After a year of drawdowns, the Biden administration moves to replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

  by Lily Jamali

  

  Analysts say the SPR is increasingly being used not just to cushion against oil price shocks, but to support prices.

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• Are we still 30 years away from fusion energy? Some think the timeline’s shrinking.

  by Andy Uhler

  

  Last week, the Department of Energy said scientists had ignited a fusion reaction that created more energy than was needed to sustain it. 

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• The free market is failing us on antibiotics

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  The free market is pretty simple: There’s supply, there’s demand, they meet somewhere in the middle. If there’s a need, there’s a product. But sometimes, that system breaks down, as it has in the market for antibiotics.

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• Don’t panic, it’s just a roundabout

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  The modern roundabout was created in 1960s Britain. But since the ’90s, the small Indianapolis suburb of Carmel, Indiana has slowly become the roundabout capital of the United States.

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