Segments From This Episode

• The job market might finally be returning to “normal,” economists say

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Experts are predicting a slight decrease in wage growth, a drop that get us closer to pre-pandemic rates.

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• Homebuyers face a double whammy: rising mortgage rates and rising prices

  by Samantha Fields

  

  The average monthly payment on a new mortgage rose 46% in 2022, and home prices and mortgage rates have continued to climb in 2023.

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• A decade after its debt crisis, Greece’s economy may have recovered

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  “In the last several years, there’s been sort of an acceleration of an economic turnaround,” said Liz Alderman at the New York Times. “We’re basically at a point now where Greece is essentially booming.”

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• Texas downtowns have rebounded differently post-pandemic

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  A new report by Philadelphia’s Center City District analyzed the economic recovery in the 26 largest downtown districts in the country. Five of them were in Texas.

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• How one theater is faring amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes

  by Maria Hollenhorst

  Stephanie Silverman, Executive Director at Belcourt Theater in Nashville, Tennessee, talks about how the fall movie season has been shaping up at her non-profit theater.

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• Temp jobs falling usually signals a recession. Maybe not this time.

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  It’s probably more a sign of pandemic labor market weirdness than a coming recession.

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