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Segments From This Episode

• Fed shifts focus to weak job market

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  Inflation is taking a back seat as Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that a rate cut is coming.

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• Everything you drink will be made by one company, it seems

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  Keurig Dr Pepper plans to acquire the coffee and tea company JDE Peet's, a move that comes at a tough time to be in the coffee business. Prices for coffee beans are up; droughts caused a smaller harvest in Vietnam and Brazil, and President Donald Trump has imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian coffee beans.

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• Colleges brace for a harsh new reality as higher ed recession — or depression — looms

  by Kirk Carapezza

  

  Higher education institutions like Clark University are rethinking how they operate as enrollment slips, costs climb, and politics threaten international students, research funding, and financial aid.

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