Segments From This Episode

• Saudis cut oil production — but that might not lead to higher gas prices

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Cutting production usually leads to an increase in prices. Here’s why that might not be the case this time.

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• U.S. manufacturing is sluggish, with some bright spots

  by Savannah Peters

  

  Higher borrowing costs are one factor holding back the manufacturing sector.

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• Defaults on commercial real estate loans are rising as many workers stay remote

  by Henry Epp

  

  More than 3% of such loans are now delinquent.

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• Going once, going twice, gone! Farm auctions are moving online, and that’s changing a rural tradition

  by Elizabeth Rembert

  

  Farm auctions — a marketplace for knickknacks, farm land and everything in between — are often also social gathering spaces for rural communities. That’s changing as more auctions go online.

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• It’s not my fault I was poor

  by Reema Khrais

  In an excerpt from a recent episode of Marketplace’s “This Is Uncomfortable,” host Reema Khrais checks back in with Wen Wen Yang, who wrote in four years ago asking how to navigate the middle class after growing up in a low-income household.

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• Make-A-Wish works to cut backlog of “wishes” to Disney World

  by Leoneda Inge

  

  The pandemic drastically slowed down the number of critically ill children the Make-A-Wish Foundation could send to its top destination.

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