Segments From This Episode

• The interest rate-mortgage rate relationship

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  In August, the number of new homes just starting to be built surged — it was up almost 10% from the month before. Then yesterday, the Fed cut interest rates by a half point. So what’s this mean for the housing market? Le.t’s discuss with Diane Swonk, chief economist at the audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG

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• Who will pay for the Francis Scott Key Bridge?

  The Justice Department is suing the owner and operator of the container ship that crashed into and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this year. Two companies are involved; both are based in Singapore. And the federal government wants more than $100 million in compensation for its emergency response, plus punitive damages.

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• Inside the secretive world of offshore finance

  by David Brancaccio and Erika Soderstrom

  

  We dive into a financial system that’s designed to protect the ultra wealthy.

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