Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap

  by Kai Ryssdal

  “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal talks to Jordyn Holman at the New York Times and David Gura at Bloomberg about what it’ll take for inflation to come down one last percentage point and what the latest retail sales report indicates about consumers’ spending behavior.

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• Do candidates follow through on economic promises if elected?

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  There’s only so much control a president has over economic policy, but promises give voters a sense of what a candidate will attempt.

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• Urban condo owners are “counting pennies” as home insurance soars

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Insurance rates nationwide have jumped more than 11% in 2023 and climbed nearly 20% since 2022, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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• One coal town seeks to transition after its power plant closes

  by Reid R. Frazier

  

  As coal plants around the country are retired, communities have to fund ways to rebuild.

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• Strong summer sales help these family-owned bookstores get through the slow season

  by Sofia Terenzio

  

  Joanna Reese funds her Maine shops on a shoestring. “[We do] as much as we can ourselves,” she says, “to save on costs.”

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