Between all-time-high home prices and climbing mortgage rates, what’s it like to buy a home right now? Two reporters and some experts hash it out. Plus, debt poetry and the cost of slowing climate change.
The housing market is a tale of two people: The buyer and the seller
by Kristin Schwab and Matt Levin
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Both the buyer and the seller have unrealistic expectations right now, while prices and mortgage rates are high.
Consumers really care about the cost of gas
by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
“Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal looks at why gas prices so often impact how consumers feel about the economy.
Twenty years on, pumpkin spice still has a hold on autumn (and America)
by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson
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“It’s just sort of become part of the fabric of our lives. It’s now vanilla and chocolate and peppermint… and pumpkin spice,” says food writer Emily Heil.
Clean energy investment may have bought a chance to avoid climate catastrophe
by Henry Epp
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But the world must rapidly expand spending on renewables, and cut spending on fossil fuels, to make it happen.
Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram explores money as “a state of lack”
by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Courtesy Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Read an excerpt from the title poem of Bertram’s latest work, “Negative Money,” which explores race, gender and indebtedness.
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