Segments From This Episode

• Coming this week: April's PCE and a clearer picture of U.S. GDP in the first quarter

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  They’re backward-looking indicators, but economists can’t know where we are unless they know where we’ve been.

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• Consumers have been finding plenty of reasons to be pessimistic about the future economy

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  But their outlook just might be improving.

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• This Seattle couple disagrees about how to spend their money

  by Reema Khrais, Alice Wilder and Zoë Saunders

  Chantal keeps making ultimatums to Travis about the life she wants, including a 5-bedroom house for the big family of kids they don’t have yet. Marketplace's Reema Khrais introduces them to a financial therapist to help resolve their ongoing disagreement.

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• The Numbers

  by Reema Khrais

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• Nostalgia brings back a 50-year-old restaurant

  by Solon Kelleher

  

  A brand that started in 1969 is making a comeback.

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• How do online travel agents like Expedia and Booking.com work?

  by Sean McHenry

  

  Online travel agents are to analog travel agents what Amazon is to department stores: you can get similar stuff, but the former leverages technology to scale up.

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