Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap

  by Kai Ryssdal

  "Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal talks inflation, retail data, and more with Greg Ip at the Wall Street Journal and Rachel Siegel at the Washington Post.

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• Retail sales report shows consumers are still spending, but cautiously

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  Consumers are shopping for bargains at summer sales and small luxuries but spending less at restaurants.

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• Why doesn't the U.S. have a wealth tax?

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  A wealth tax could raise a lot of money and burden a privileged few. Trouble is, the U.S. Constitution basically bans it.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• Arts groups look for new funding after Trump admin’s sudden cuts

  by Nova Safo

  

  Local and state funding, small donors, private foundations — all are stepping up to fill the gap left by sudden funding cuts from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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• #TBT to when Putin turned up at a New York City gas station

  by Bob Moon

  We rarely re-run stories. But in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Alaska this week, we throw it back to another visit from the Kremlin

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