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  • Startup investors tend to back ventures similar to those that worked in the past, which often means pouring more money into the same old places.
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    Yesterday we were talking about how bank ethicists measure success (by boredom), today we’re looking at a way President Trump and Republicans could actually make banking a little more boring. Gary Cohn, one of Trump’s economic advisers, told Bloomberg he’d be OK with the financial sector going back to the days when investment banks did trading and underwriting of securities, and commercial banks did banking as the rest of us know it. We’ll talk about it, plus the unusual way Spotify could go public and injecting a little geographic diversity in the startup world.

  • "Wall Street writ large," author William Cohan says, "is this whole huge finance effort worldwide that really importantly provides capital to people who need it by taking it from people who have it to invest."
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    The New York Fed reports that total outstanding household debt in this country is juuuust about where it was in 2008. Remember 2008? We’re thinking about debt a little differently now, though. Then, a conversation with a big bank ethicist, who tells us what he does and how he measures success. Plus, why Panera’s worth $7.2 billion to the equity group JAB, and another dispatch from Erie, Pennsylvania. 

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  • Sean Fedorko heads up Radius CoWork, Erie’s first coworking space.
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    The conventional wisdom about a lot of Rust Belt cities in this country is, well, look at the name. Their economies are shot, thanks to the steady loss of manufacturing jobs, and voters there are counting on President Trump to bring them back. It’s the premise of our series “The Big Promise.” But in Erie, Pennsylvania, there’s something else going on. Plus, we’ll look at the growing list of advertisers pulling away from “The O’Reilly Factor” and Jenna Lyons’ departure from J.Crew. 

  • At the Shasta Dam construction site, "high-scalers" hang from ropes on steep cliffs with jackhammers. It was one of the most dangerous jobs and workers who did it were compensated more highly than ordinary laborers.
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    President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan is still in the nascent stages, but it’s a key part of his promise to create millions of jobs. Once upon a time, infrastructure was this country’s job. After the Great Depression, the government put millions of Americans to work building stuff. We’ll look back at that history and what lessons it might hold for Trump’s ambitious infrastructure plan. Plus: Auto earnings, Trump’s visit from Xi Jinping and an exit interview with Fed Gov. Daniel Tarullo.

  • Members of FEMA's Colorado Urban Search and Rescue team check on residents who did not evacuate before Hurricane Ike's arrival September 14, 2008 in Galveston, Texas. 
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    More than a dozen major disasters — mudslides, floods, a huge bridge collapse in Atlanta this week — have hit the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office. There are a few federal agencies in charge of cleanup and relief, but it’s not yet clear how they’ll change in this new administration. For example, FEMA doesn’t have a director yet, even as Trump has proposed hundreds of millions in cuts. Plus: A Federal Reserve governor visits West Virginia and the latest on Trump’s executive orders. And, as always, we’ll wrap up the week in business and economic news.

  • 03/30/2017: What does it take to get a security clearance?
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    Ivanka Trump has officially become and unpaid assistant to the president with an office in the White House and a security clearance. But what does it take to get security clearance? How much does it cost to grant security clearance? We got some answers. Also from Washington: The Congressional Budget Office released a report today projecting the United States reaching a record level of publicly held debt by 2017. We take a look at how demographic shifts have contributed to this problem. We also talk with NFL players Malcolm Jenkins and Anquan Boldin, about their campaign for criminal justice reform. 

  • British Prime Minister Theresa May addressed the Houses of Parliament today, triggering Article 50 and the process that takes Britain out of the European Union.
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    After more than four decades of membership with the European Union , the British government has officially notified its European partners that the U.K. is leaving the bloc. Marketplace’s London Bureau Chief Stephen Beard looks at how global banks and financial institutions based in the city of London are preparing for Brexit. Also on today’s show, we take a look at how Virtual Private Network (VPN) services are looking to capitalize on the recent move in Congress to repeal rules aimed at protecting online privacy. Plus, Marketplace host Molly Wood talks to Stacy Smith, the executive vice president leading manufacturing, operations and sales at Intel, about why he thinks computing power will continue to advance despite barriers.

  • President Donald Trump signs an executive order at the Environmental Protection Agency today in Washington, D.C., that reverses the Obama-era climate change policies.
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    Obamacare is the law of the land, so now the GOP is moving on to the federal budget. Easy enough, right? Um, no. Then: President Donald Trump’s latest executive order rolls back several climate regulations. But can deregulation alone save coal? (No, it can’t.) Plus, the latest on Brexit and robots that may be able to predict your death. Happy Tuesday.

  • 03/27/2017: Can the government really act like a business?
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    What now? That’s the question after House Republicans last week failed to pass a repeal-and-replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act. We take a look at what might happen to state and federal insurance exchanges in 2018. We also re-visit the question “Can the government really act like a business?” President Trump seems to think so. Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, will head a new department with an old concept: use data-driven business practices and apply them to government. Lastly, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is a major proponent of school choice, but that program could put some rural districts at risk of losing funds.

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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.

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