Segments From This Episode

• A year-end look at the stock market

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  This past Friday, after a positive jobs report, the S&P 500 hit another record high. It’s up 28% so far this year, and if that holds, it’ll be two back to back years of more than 20% growth. Let’s discuss with Julia Coronado, president of MacroPolicy Perspectives and a professor at the University of Texas-Austin.

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• Bad news for your morning: The price of coffee is higher than it’s been in almost half a century

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Blame climate change.

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• A look at the holiday supply chain

  by Elizabeth Hotson

  We are smack in the middle of the holiday shopping season. According to the National Retail Federation, consumers will spend a record $902 per person in the U.S. on average. It’s a similar story over in the U.K. And whether here or there, businesses have to keep up with all that demand.

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