Back-to-school shopping? Already?

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• Anxiety is driving some of our early back-to-school shopping

  by Kristin Schwab

  

  It’s early July, but already big box retailers are pushing their school supplies.

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• Chicago Fed launches a new consumer sentiment composite index

  by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban

  

  How consumers feel about the economy used to line up with how they spent. These days, not so much.

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• Weekend heat wave tests the country's power grid

  by Samantha Fields

  

  A hot and stormy Fourth of July weekend saw more than 20 cities hit record highs. While the grid was strained in some places, the power mostly stayed on.

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• What's behind the massive appetite for new Boeing and Airbus planes

  by Henry Epp

  

  Boeing and Airbus each have order backlogs thousands of aircraft deep, thanks to pandemic-era production slowdowns and persistent air travel demand.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• How the algae in Lake Erie can make or break the Great Lakes economy

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  NOAA is predicting blooms of harmful algae will be moderate in Lake Erie this year. Its annual forecast has massive economic implications for nearby communities.

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• How homeownership turned an HR professional into a plant entrepreneur

  by Maria Hollenhorst

  

  Redoing her home’s landscaping led Sara Southwick to start her own native plant nursery in Provo, Utah.

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