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Hikers take pictures at the entrance of the famous Narrows hike, currently closed, along the North Fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park on May 15, 2020 in Springdale, Utah.
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We're talking corporate debt and packed national parks on today's show.
American corporations were already borrowing a lot before the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, with the economy all but ground to a halt and money even cheaper, they took on even more debt. On today’s show, we’ll talk about what that means, along with another unexpected dimension of this economy reopening: National Parks packed to the … hills.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Pandemic Hangover: $11 Trillion in Corporate Debt” from The Wall Street Journal
- “Vaccines Offer Significant Protection Against Covid-19 Delta Variant, U.K. Analysis Shows” also from the Journal
- “National Parks Are Overcrowded and Closing Their Gates” from, that’s right, The Wall Street Journal
- “‘Ted Lasso’: How Marcus Mumford and Tom Howe Created the Show’s Transatlantic Theme Song and Score” from The Hollywood Reporter
- “Amtrak USA Rail Pass Offers 30 Days of Travel for $299” from Insider
- And this glitch in the simulation
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