Segments From This Episode

• Rents are way up. How are landlords picking the price?

  by Matt Levin

  

  The national median rent has risen over 20% since 2020, according to Apartment List. And the use of pricing algorithms used by some of the nation’s biggest corporate landlords might be playing a role.

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• What the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation measure can tell us

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  The personal consumption expenditures price index, better known as the PCE, tracks what we paid for goods and services in the previous month.

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• Liquid Death is an “entertainment machine” with a water brand attached

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  “We think about our marketing team more like ‘Saturday Night Live,’” says Mike Cessario, the beverage startup’s co-founder and CEO.

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• Drought threatens hydropower produced by Colorado River

  by Savannah Peters

  

  Facing a prolonged megadrought, Western states must prep for huge water-use cuts.

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• Private equity investment is flooding into addiction treatment. Is that a good thing?

  by Blake Farmer

  

  When a new operator took over an addiction treatment center in Nashville, former employees say they saw cutbacks.

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