Segments From This Episode

• Businesses’ investment in new equipment helped boost GDP

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  The real gross domestic product for the second quarter was even stronger than previously thought.

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• At Dollar General, sales of “consumable” goods are up. But profits are down.

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  The retailer can only raise prices so much — households that earn less than $35,000 a year account for 60% of its sales.

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• Inside China’s “superchip” black market

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  Powerful computer chips are sold in Shenzhen markets despite U.S. restrictions on exports, says Ana Swanson of the New York Times.

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• The dollar weakens as markets bet on Fed cutting interest rates

  by Justin Ho

  

  That’s a positive for U.S exports, but it raises prices for imported goods.

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• Composting bodies catches on as the eco-friendly alternative to burial and cremation

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Body disposition can have a major environmental impact. That’s partly why 12 states and counting have legalized human composting in the past five years.

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