Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap

  by Kristin Schwab

  "Marketplace" host Kristin Schwab talks with Jordyn Holman at the New York Times and at Rachel Siegel at The Washington Post about what holiday shopping looks like in a K-shaped economy and what limited data means for the Fed’s next interest rate decision.

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• U.S. consumers are heading into the holiday season with record credit card debt

  by Savannah Peters

  

  The typical cycle of taking on debt during Q4 and paying it quickly after the New Year may be more difficult this season as inflation, high rent, and high interest rates challenge consumer wallets.

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• Why this family kissed homesteading goodbye

  by Maria Hollenhorst

  

  After ten years of living on a small rural farm, Laura and Sam Griggs moved their family into a city. 

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• The Numbers

  by Kristin Schwab

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• The surprising, anti-monopolist history of Monopoly

  by Andie Corban

  

  People think Monopoly was born of the Great Depression. But as author Mary Pilon discovered, Monopoly was actually created as a leftwing teaching tool around the Gilded Age.

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