Segments From This Episode

• The housing market is a tale of two people: The buyer and the seller

  by Kristin Schwab and Matt Levin

  

  Both the buyer and the seller have unrealistic expectations right now, while prices and mortgage rates are high.

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• 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.

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• Twenty years on, pumpkin spice still has a hold on autumn (and America)

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson

  

  “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.

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• Clean energy investment may have bought a chance to avoid climate catastrophe

  by Henry Epp

  

  But the world must rapidly expand spending on renewables, and cut spending on fossil fuels, to make it happen.

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• Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram explores money as “a state of lack”

  by 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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