A shock to the oil system

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• Long-term impacts

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio

  "Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal talks to Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about why the stock market isn't "baking in" the long-term impacts of the war with Iran.

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• Shock to global oil market roughly 3 times bigger than 1970s crisis

  by Samantha Fields

  

  The war in Iran has cost the global oil supply roughly 15 million barrels a day, or 15%, so far. A shock that poses a “major, major threat” to the global economy, said Fatih Birol, the head of the the International Energy Agency.

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• How skyrocketing natural gas prices will impact U.S. data centers

  by Meghan McCarty Carino

  

  The natural gas surplus in the U.S. could wind up supercharging demand for data centers built here instead of Europe or the Middle East.

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• Walmart rolls out digital prices

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  Walmart says the tool will save its employees a lot of time, but customers are worried that digital labels in the aisles will lead to dynamic pricing.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• A plastic plant didn't save an old steel town. Residents are trying something new.

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Beaver County’s population has been declining since the steel mill there closed 40 years ago. The shift to plastic manufacturing isn’t panning out, so some residents are investing in a different kind of economic model.

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• How to rebuild after a fire

  by Sofia Terenzio

  Matt Wicker is the owner of WickerWoodWorks in Portland, Oregon. Last August, his warehouse burnt down, resulting in him losing all his inventory and equipment. Here's how he's doing now.

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