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Oct 6, 2020
Is the fate of Big Tech starting to come into focus?
This composite photo shows, from left to right, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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Details from a House subcommittee's yearlong investigation are starting to leak. Plus, why bond yields are up, the ongoing effort to connect all of the U.S. to the internet and rethinking football stadium designs.
Segments From this episode
What we know so far about how Capitol Hill plans to handle Big Tech
Marketplace’s Nancy Marshall-Genzer has more.
U.S. government-bond yields hit their highest levels in months
Jeffrey Cleveland, chief economist at Payden & Rygel, says this is the result of the Fed keeping interest rates low and expectations that a new coronavirus relief package, if and when it is signed into law, would be funded at least in part by government bonds. “I think you could ask, ‘How are they going to pay for that?’ And the answer would be issuing more bonds,” Cleveland said.
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Music from the episode
Us and Them Pink Floyd
The team
David Brancaccio
Host
Victoria Craig
Host, BBC
Stephen Ryan
Senior Producer, BBC
Jonathan Frewin
Producer, BBC
Daniel Shin
Producer
Jay Siebold
Technical Director
Brian Allison
Engineer
Meredith Garretson Morbey
Senior Producer
Erika Soderstrom
Producer
Rose Conlon
Producer
Alex Schroeder
Producer