Segments From This Episode

• Small businesses are just as grumpy about the economy as consumers

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  Optimism has increased, but it’s still below a 50-year average, a National Federation of Independent Business survey shows.

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• Labor costs fell in July. That may be what the Fed’s been looking for.

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  The decline helped bring the annual rate of inflation at the wholesale level down to 2.2%.

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• U.S. debt just hit $35 trillion. Is it putting the global economy at risk?

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  If you add up government debt around the world, it totals $91 trillion. More than a third of it comes from one country: The U.S.

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• How the snack industry is responding to Ozempic

  by Matt Levin

  

  Food and beverage developers are working overtime on new products that appeal to the changing tastes of obesity drug users.

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• Home Depot CEO cites “macroeconomic uncertainty” in earnings report

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  The company says customers are deferring big renovation projects because of high interest rates and economic worries.

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• Why Canada has become a critical supplier of crude oil to the U.S.

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  It’s an international love story of sorts, featuring “thick, heavy, goopy crude oil.”

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