Segments From This Episode

• The long-expected consumer pullback may finally be materializing

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  We spent more over the holiday, but we bought less — thanks to inflation.

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• “Low Earth orbit is now open for business”

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  This is how Varda Space Industries hopes to commercialize manufacturing in space.

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• EVs and hybrids drive 18% of car sales, doubling market share since 2021

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Price dips and and an expansion of models to choose from contributed to the boost in third-quarter purchases.

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• The UN is holding this year’s climate conference in a petrostate reachable only by air

  by Henry Epp

  

  And the leader of the COP28 gathering is the CEO of a giant oil company. Will those fossil fuel ties compromise the outcome?

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