Segments From This Episode

• Earnings and jobs and rate cuts

  by Nova Safo

  Third quarter earnings season kicks off this week, when we’ll get a view of the economy through the lens of the companies on the front lines. What can we expect? Let’s put that question to Julia Coronado, founder and president of MacroPolicy Perspectives and a professor at the University of Texas – Austin.

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• Why labor force participation has stayed about the same for years, apart from the pandemic

  by Henry Epp

  

  Friday’s jobs report showed the percentage of working age people in a job or looking for one was holding at 62.7% last month.

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• The economic strains facing Malaysian's aging citizens

  by Claire Bolderson

  Malaysia has had extraordinary economic success in the past 30 years. But now, its population is aging fast. And despite its development, growing numbers of elderly there are at risk of poverty, because they don’t have pensions or adequate savings.

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