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Marketplace Weekend for Friday, November 18, 2016

Nov 18, 2016

Episodes 91 - 100 of 216

  • Marketplace Weekend for Friday, November 11, 2016
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    This week, we’re digesting Donald Trump’s upset in Tuesday’s presidential election. Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal and The Atlantic’s Gillian White go long and short on U.S. politics. Marketplace’s Andrea Seabrook, Nancy Marshall-Genzer and Dan Gorenstein discuss Trump’s potential policies and their ramifications. Plus, Vox’s Sarah Kiff speaks with Lizzie about how the election results could impact women’s health care. 

  • People cast their votes at an early voting center for the general election on Monday in Miami, Florida.
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    On this episode of Marketplace Weekend, an election-themed long and short, a look at how politics influence the foods we eat, and a check-in with mayors around the country about their local economies. Plus, we answer listener’s lingering questions about the economy before they vote. 

  • In this week's show, haunted house creator John Murdy explains the ins and outs of a good (and scary) haunted house.
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    This week, the New York Times’ Quentin Hardy and Marketplace’s Jed Kim play the Long and Short game, and debate sports and Christmas. Guest host Molly Wood talks with the University of North Carolina’s Zeynep Tufeckci about the big, messy world of media consolidation, plus we hear from a man whose job is to create haunted houses. Marketplace’s Andy Uhler fills us in on why there’s too much cheese, but not enough avocado. Finally, writer, chef, and world traveler Anthony Bourdain takes the Marketplace Quiz.

  • In a next life Devendra Banhart would be a dried persimmon dealer.
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    This week, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Sam Grobart and The Atlantic’s Gillian White talk new menswear companies and GDP growth. We also hear from a mom who’s trying to go back to school, and listeners call in to discuss their Halloween budgets. Plus, Molly Wood explains why tech companies fix what isn’t broken, and musician Devendra Banhart takes the Marketplace Quiz.

  • Can PlayStation's new virtual reality headset conquer the gaming world?
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    On this episode of Marketplace Weekend, we learn about the latest findings in the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll; we hear listener stories about their Halloween budgets; and one low-wage worker shares her story of trying to make ends meet. Plus, Ben Johnson fill us in on the latest in virtual reality technology, and filmmaker Mark Duplass takes the Marketplace Quiz.

  • In many other countries, elections happen on the weekends.
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    On this episode we take a visit to St. Louis before the debate, we continue our conversation about currency and banking, and a look at Detroit’s real estate market. Plus, the power of sonic branding, inspiration from 100 entrepreneurial women and the Marketplace Quiz with Sylvan Esso. 

  • Aoki says to make it in the music industry you have to "be a chess player."
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    This week, Kimberly Adams and Bloomberg’s Sam Grobart discuss life on Mars, host Lizzie O’Leary delves into the world of student debt and for-profit education for a special collaboration with PBS NewsHour and Frontline and DJ Steve Aoki takes the Marketplace Quiz.

  • Alton Brown takes the Marketplace Quiz!
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    This week, Andrea Seabrook and The Atlantic’s Gillian White play the Long and Short game. We also look at pressure cookers, fertilizer and other everyday items that can be used to make weapons, and the ways we can start keeping tabs on them. Listeners call in with the questions they’ve always wanted to ask about money, plus Lizzie catches up with Flint schools Superintendent Bilal Tawwab as kids head back to school. Television cooking personality Alton Brown takes the Marketplace quiz. The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy explains why data centers are opening up across rural America, but aren’t bringing any new jobs. Finally, a conversation with Christine Moellenberndt, Reddit’s on-site anthropologist.

  • In this week's Long and Short, Marketplace's Andy Uhler says Ikea is "the place where healthy relationships go to die."
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    On this edition of Marketplace Weekend, Andy Uhler and Lindsey Turrentine, editor in chief of CNET.com, talk with host Lizzie O’Leary about Ikea and the makeup industry in this week’s Long and Short. Stephen Beard reports on the first new power plant to open in the United Kingdom in 20 years, and Kimberly Adams talks about new census data that reports median household incomes have increased. Listeners call in to talk about money and education, and senior education correspondent Amy Scott weighs in on college affordability. WBEZ’s reporter Natalie Moore talks about the link between poverty, segregation and violence in Chicago. Plus, filmmaker John Bennardo discusses his new film “The 2 Dollar Bill Documentary,” and we hear an interview with the band “Survive,” which is responsible for the popular original score to the Netflix hit “Stranger Things.”    

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