Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap

  by Kai Ryssdal

  “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks with Jeanna Smialek from the New York Times and Sudeep Reddy from Politico to discuss the Fed’s decision to pause interest rate hikes, and what market shocks like the UAW strike might mean for the economy.

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• Franchises are big business, but they’re adjusting to economic headwinds

  by Matt Levin

  

  Franchisees get help with marketing and branding, but the corporate parent can’t do much about high interest rates and labor costs.

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• 6 p.m. dinner reservations are losing their stigma

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  People are eating earlier everywhere, according to data from Yelp. Lifestyle changes are part of the reason.

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• New apartments coming on the market may ease rent inflation, but not the housing shortage

  by Henry Epp

  

  Many of the projects being completed were delayed by the pandemic.

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• How the orange egg yolk trend was hatched

  by Kai Ryssdal and Livi Burdette

  

  With eggs a more costly commodity, yolks of a richer color have come to signify luxury, writer Marian Bull observes.

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