This weekend, we look at people trying to figure it out in the economy: from Congress to robots to tricking yourself into saving. Check us out on Twitter @MarketplaceWknd, or on Facebook at Marketplace Business News.

This week’s show is all about borders. We explore borders in the news, like Syria and Hungary, but also the smaller ones that govern our everyday lives. You can tell us how borders shape yours. Send us an email or reach us on Twitter @MarketplaceWKND

This week, Marketplace Weekend host Lizzie O’Leary looks at how oil plays a big role throughout our economy. We break down the history of America’s reliance on oil, check in with an oil worker who travels throughout the world to work on rigs and learn why a gallon of gas costs what it does.

This weekend, Lizzie O’Leary looks at the uncertainty in the economy and stock market; why China’s fast growth is now hitting choppy waters; and refugee Joseph Kim explains life after fleeing North Korea.

This weekend, we head to the Crescent City to see how New Orleans has changed in the 10 years since Katrina: a trip to the legendary Dooky Chase’s Restaurant to meet owner Leah Chase; how rebounding employment numbers don’t tell the whole story; and Big Freedia shows us where she learned to bounce.

Lizzie O’Leary looks at the place where art and money intersect. Just about all of us consume some kind of art: Music, TV, theater, even a ceramic mug. It’s easy to forget that those things are a business. Someone makes them, someone sells them, and hopefully someone gets paid. There’s a reason “starving artist” is a cliché. Today on the show we’re exploring the economics behind all that creativity.

Guest host David Lazarus of the Los Angeles Times looks at the minimums in the economy: the minimum wage debate, the new minimum renewable energy requirements unveiled in President Obama’s power plan and the minimum plan you should have to get your finances in order.

In this week’s show, the economy of personal robots, the job market for drone pilots and the everyday robots that already surround us. Molly Wood, senior tech correspondent, rides in the gunner’s seat of a 15,000-pound combat MegaBot and fires its missile launcher. 

This week, a look behind the business of shelters: How one homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles copes with rising demand, how “sanctuary city” policies can impact local economies and why gold is no longer the safe financial shelter it once was.