Segments From This Episode

• Small businesses cut jobs, but outlook is mixed

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Jobs lost at small businesses totaled 120,000 last month. What does that portend for larger companies?

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• How are retailers benefiting from the "buy now, pay later" boom?

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  “Buy now, pay later” transactions, which are essentially zero-interest, short-term loans, topped $1 billion for the first time this past Cyber Monday.

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• A world without plastic

  by Kai Ryssdal and Livi Burdette

  

  In her new book “The Problem with Plastic,” a former EPA official looks at the costs of plastic overproduction and how we can move beyond it

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• Pottery studio owner gears up for first holiday shopping season since reopening after Hurricane Helene

  by Sofia Terenzio

  "In comparison to what I've been through in the last year, things are just going really well," said Hannah Burnisky, woner of Cold Mountain Art Collective in Canton, North Carolina.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• Overall import prices were flat in September. But take out fuel, and prices rose

  by Carla Javier

  

  Overall, import prices remained unchanged. But that's before you add in tariffs.

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• A refresher on how some East Coast states cap-and-trade carbon

  by Henry Epp

  

  A group of states on the East Coast has been operating a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions for years. But the compact made headlines this fall as some states weighed whether to join the effort.

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