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  • May 16, 2018

    The obligation of capitalism

    Kenneth Langone, co-founder of The Home Depot.
    Drew Angerer/Getty Images

    The co-founder of Home Depot says he's worried about the effect of Bernie Sanders on today's young people in his new book, "I Love Capitalism!"

  • May 15, 2018

    A story about steel … and also, pizza

    A Marghertia pizza.
    Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company, New York

    Cue the "Rocky" music.

  • May 15, 2018

    The Supreme Court paves the way for states to legalize gambling

    The decision is sending ripples through major league sports concerned about integrity of games.

  • May 15, 2018

    Trump’s ZTE turnabout

    The Chinese electronics manufacturer ZTE Corp. was on the brink of collapse after the U.S. government punished it last month for breaking American sanctions against Iran and North Korea. But in a sudden Twitter twist President Donald Trump says he’s now working to save ZTE.  Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

  • May 15, 2018

    In the midst of a massive opioid crisis, hospitals are experiencing an opioid shortage

    In the midst of a massive opioid crisis, hospitals are experiencing an opioid shortage
    Illustration by Emily Judem/WGBH News. Photos courtesy of Benjamin Pennell and Massachusetts General Hospital.

    Drug shortages are nothing new in U.S. hospitals.

  • May 14, 2018

    You say comptroller, I say controller

    An exterior view of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington D.C.
    Nancy Marshall-Genzer/Marketplace

    There's a lively debate over how to say the name of a federal bank regulator.

  • May 12, 2018

    The swamp and the draining thereof

    Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney.
    Yana Paskova/Getty Images

    We break down what Michael Cohen's consulting for AT&T means. Plus, we talk NAFTA ahead of Paul Ryan's May 17 deadline.

  • May 12, 2018

    Many sticking points and little time in NAFTA negotiations

    May 17. Next Thursday. That’s the deadline House Speaker Paul Ryan has set for negotiators to notify Congress that they’ve reached an agreement on a revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement if they want to get it through Congress by the end of the year. A May deadline for a December vote […]

  • May 12, 2018

    Trump unveils plan for cutting drug prices. Will it work?

    President Donald Trump on Friday took the wraps off his long-awaited plan for cutting drug prices. In a speech, the president announced measures to increase competition and pricing transparency as ways to drive down costs, which have been spiraling. He did not put forward any plan to use the huge buying power of the federal […]

  • May 12, 2018

    U.S. scrap exports to China just came to a screeching halt

    A Chinese laborer sorts plastic bottles for recycling in Dong Xiao Kou village on the outskirts of Beijing.
    FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images

    One expert says the monthlong suspension could impact an estimated $400 million worth of trade.