Segments From This Episode

• High mortgage rates, recession fears: Who actually wants to buy a house in 2023?

  by Matt Levin

  

  Pending home sales have dipped, and economists expect the market to continue to droop.

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• Federal student aid office has a big to-do list in 2023, but the same budget

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  The office will have to manage student loan forgiveness — if that clears Supreme Court challenges — and the resumption of loan payments after a pandemic pause.

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• Crisis at Christmas: Strikes disrupt the U.K. during the festive season

  by Stephen Beard

  

  During a wave of industrial unrest, triggered by the cost of living crisis, striking workers voice their discontent from the picket line.

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• How AI can connect you with your inner child

  From “Marketplace Tech,” host Kimberly Adams talks with creative technologist Michelle Huang, who trained OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3 to act as her younger self and had conversations with it.

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• When costs rise along with the bread

  Global wheat prices are not seeing a slowdown anytime soon as the war in Ukraine continues and as wheat inventories hit six-year lows. The BBC’s Leanna Byrne looks at how bakeries around the world are dealing with the shortage and high prices.

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