Segments From This Episode

• The European Union targets the App Store

  by Henry Epp

  Apple’s App Store has run afoul of European regulators, who say its rules are unfair to third party developers who want to communicate directly with users. We’ll hear more.

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• The stock market in an election year

  by David Brancaccio

  The second half of 2024 is in a week, and, as it now stands, we’re on track for the biggest jumps in stock prices in any election year since Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford ran for president in 1976. The S&P is up 15% this year; the NASDAQ up 20%. We’ll unpack with Julia Coronado of MacroPolicy Perspectives.

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• The case for wage insurance to offset future job disruption

  by Sabri Ben-Achour, Chris Farrell and Alex Schroeder

  

  There’s already unemployment insurance. But new research makes the case for wage insurance as further protection for workers.

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