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  • Oct 16, 2018

    U.S. crude oil exports to China drop to nearly zero amid trade war

    In the first half of 2018, China was the biggest buyer of U.S. crude oil. In August and September, they barely bought any. Energy reporter Rebecca Elliott wrote about the sudden drop-off in the Wall Street Journal, and we talked to her about why this happened amid the ongoing trade war.  Click the audio player above […]

  • Oct 16, 2018

    U.S. crude oil exports to China drop to nearly zero amid trade war

    In the first half of 2018, China was the biggest buyer of U.S. crude oil. In August and September, they barely bought any. Energy reporter Rebecca Elliott wrote about the sudden drop-off in the Wall Street Journal, and we talked to her about why this happened amid the ongoing trade war.  Click the audio player above […]

  • Oct 16, 2018

    How the deaths of gay men became a commodity

    Magazines require a high grade of coated paper, one that ink will lay well on.
    Bennett Purser/Marketplace

    A haunting money story from the AIDS epidemic that all started in the pages of gay men's lifestyle magazines.

  • Oct 16, 2018

    How the deaths of gay men became a commodity

    Magazines require a high grade of coated paper, one that ink will lay well on.
    Bennett Purser/Marketplace

    A haunting money story from the AIDS epidemic that all started in the pages of gay men's lifestyle magazines.

  • Oct 15, 2018

    How a writer’s disappearance could damage economic relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia

    Jamal Khashoggi looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama, on Dec.15, 2014.
    MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images

    The disappearance of a Saudi columnist for the Washington Post has erupted into a diplomatic dispute, and potentially an economic one. President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia could face “severe punishment” if the government is shown to have been involved in Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. Sanctions could be one form of punishment, to which the Saudi […]

  • Oct 15, 2018

    How a writer’s disappearance could damage economic relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia

    Jamal Khashoggi looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama, on Dec.15, 2014.
    MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images

    The disappearance of a Saudi columnist for the Washington Post has erupted into a diplomatic dispute, and potentially an economic one. President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia could face “severe punishment” if the government is shown to have been involved in Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. Sanctions could be one form of punishment, to which the Saudi […]

  • Oct 13, 2018

    Banks count their blessings in recovery

    Banks count their blessings in recovery
    Andrew Burton/Getty Images

    Three big banks posted their quarterly results Friday. And they were good. When you hear that profits at a bank like JPMorgan Chase were up almost 25 percent, you have to wonder: Why? Well, one reason is banks are making a lot more from you and me. Click the audio player above to hear the […]

  • Oct 13, 2018

    Here’s why Obamacare premiums are going down for the first time

    Here’s why Obamacare premiums are going down for the first time
    John Moore/Getty Images

    It's "really about returning excess profits," a Kaiser Family Foundation executive says.

  • Oct 12, 2018

    When mortgages hit the roof

    When mortgages hit the roof
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    In the early 1980s, the Fed combated inflation by hiking interest rates to over 18 percent.

  • Oct 12, 2018

    Trade consultants get a boost from tariff tensions

    A worker about to move stock at the Medsource Labs warehouse in Chaska, Minnesota.
    Laura McCallum/Minnesota Public Radio

    Anxious importers are flooding the phone lines of trade advisers; one has seen a 20 percent jump in business.

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