Segments From This Episode

• American oil and gas are taking opposite paths

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  Oil production looks like it could be plateauing. Natural gas, not so much.

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• Is the service sector frozen?

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sarah Leeson

  Kai talks with Laura Veldkamp, an economics professor at Columbia Business School, about the new ISM data showing that the service industry is flatlining

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• Should the U.S. put location trackers on AI chips?

  by Matt Levin

  

  The Trump administration is exploring the option to prevent smuggling to China.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• What zipper giant YKK can tell us about trade

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry

  

  “Basically, YKK is a company that is just in the business of keeping things together,” said journalist Joshua Hunt. “It's really rolled with the punches in terms of the various shapes that globalization has taken.”

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• Yum! Brands feels pinch as consumers pinch pennies

  by Savannah Peters

  

  Same-store sales for KFC and Pizza Hut declined in the last quarter. Sales at Taco Bell, its more budget-friendly brand, grew at a slower pace.

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• "I am meant to work with my hands"

  by Sofia Terenzio

  

  Katharine Christie is the owner of She Fixed That LLC, a handyperson and carpentry business based in Morris County, New Jersey.

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