Segments From This Episode

• What do these high Treasury yields mean for the economy?

  by Matt Levin

  

  The yield on the 10-year Treasury note reached a 16-year high Tuesday. That benchmark rate lifts interest rates on other loans.

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• August JOLTS shows a stronger-than-expected labor market

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Some economists say what really matters is whether the trend continues next month.

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• Former Yellow drivers have trouble finding jobs in right-to-work Tennessee

  by Marianna Bacallao

  

  Nashville’s Yellow Freight — one of the only union shops in trucking — shut down operations in August, leaving 30,000 people without work.

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• Commercial warehouse use expands at fast pace

  by Justin Ho

  

  Transportation and warehousing data shows second month of growth. Firms try to fine-tune planning in wake of supply chain snarls.

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• For Major League Baseball, shorter games and more action have drawn bigger crowds

  by Henry Epp

  

  MLB saw its highest attendance since 2017 this year, and on average, games were 24 minutes shorter than last year.

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• There’s a corner of the internet where YouTubers read strangers’ obituaries. Why?

  by Kai Ryssdal, Andie Corban and Sarah Leeson

  

  “It’s quite a tasteless pursuit, but it seems as though it’s a pursuit driven by desperation, like they are casting around looking for ways to make money online,” WIRED reporter Kate Knibbs said of the YouTube obituary pirates.

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