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Marketplace Business News Podcast
Kai Ryssdal
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  • Small businesses walk an affordability tightrope
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    Small businesses are struggling to keep prices affordable without landing in the red. Plus: AI accessibility, oat farmers, and the Netflix-Warner Bros merger.

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  • What's next for the Fed?
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    Plus: child care costs, historic restoration, and the future of the federal funds rate.

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  • Small businesses pull back on hiring
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    Plus: Plastic waste, holiday shopping, carbon emissions, and import prices.

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  • A Fed divided against itself
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    A former Fed economist tells us why the FOMC is experiencing rare dissent within its ranks. Plus: airplane software, data centers and dollar stores.

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  • Too much oil, too little demand
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    OPEC will hold production steady going into the new year. Plus: shipping logistics, a closed-border economy, and healthy packaged food alternatives.

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  • 'Tis the season for credit card debt
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    Plus: Lab grown chocolate, Monopoly, and a wrap up of the week’s economic news.

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  • Holiday hiring doldrums
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    Plus: Screen time management, AI music scraping and cattle ranching.

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  • Predicting the Fed's every move
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    A look at what the Federal Reserve might do at its next meeting, based on Treasury yields. Plus: Fed Funds futures, AI in medical settings, and first-time unemployment claims.

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  • Much ado about affordability
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    We get some experts to talk to us about what the term really means. Plus: wholesale inflation, John Deere, and real estate AI.

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About the show

Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, our leading business news radio program and podcast is about providing context on the economic news of the day. Through stories, conversations and newsworthy developments, we help listeners understand the economic world around them. Marketplace makes sense of the economy for everyone, no econ degree or finance background required. Marketplace doesn’t just report on the numbers, we take it deeper, adding context to what’s happening in the stock market and how macroeconomic policy can affect you and your business. Monday through Friday, our team speaks with a wide range of industry professionals — from small business owners to Fortune 500 CEOs, Marketplace breaks down complex topics related to business and the economy without industry jargon and over-complicated explanations.

Kai Ryssdal has led the program since 2005 and has hosted the program from China, the Middle East and dozens of cities across the United States. As a leading public media voice, Kai has been a trusted broadcaster for two decades and received an Emmy for investigative journalism on a PBS FRONTLINE documentary about money in politics called “Big Sky, Big Money.” He has appeared often on CNN, CNBC and CBS news. His written work has been featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Produced and distributed by American Public Media (APM) our popular business news podcasts are available worldwide on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and RSS Feeds and any place else where you get your podcasts.

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