Segments From This Episode

• How often does the Fed actually achieve its dual mandate — price stability and maximum employment?

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Since the late 1970s, the Federal Reserve has had two main jobs: ensuring stable prices and maximum employment. How often does it achieve both at the same time?

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• Disney reports its first streaming profit

  

  Any profit is a milestone in an industry where it’been elusive for nearly all players.

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• In a rural Texas town, the constant hum of a bitcoin mine haunts residents

  by Kristin Schwab and Sofia Terenzio

  

  People have attributed symptoms from ringing ears to heart issues to the noise, Andrew Chow of Time explains.

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• Getting creative in the competition for health care workers

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  Competition for medical workers can be fierce, requiring incentives like housing assistance or student loan repayments to recruit new hires.

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• What female entrepreneurs of the 19th century can teach us about the modern economy

  by Kristin Schwab and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  Economic researcher Ruveyda Nur Gozen analyzed 3,589 women-owned manufacturing businesses from the 1800s.

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