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Kai Ryssdal
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01/27/2017: One week into Donald Trump’s economy

Jan 27, 2017

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  • View of the border fence between Mexico and the US, seen from the Mexican side, on January 26, 2017, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico. 
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    The U.S. and Mexico are at loggerheads. But whoever ends up paying for the wall, the U.S. and Mexico will remain intertwined. Then, we’ll look at the choices facing lobbyists and sanctuary cities under new rules from the Trump administration. Plus, a deep dive into Airbnb.

  • View of the border fence between Mexico and US taken from Mexico's side on January 25, 2017, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico. 
 
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    As President Donald Trump orders his long-promised wall with Mexico, we check in with our reporter on the border to talk about what the project might cost. Then, we look at where Trump fits among previous Republican presidents, and his effect on steel, stocks and immigrant communities.

  • Then-President-elect Donald Trump boards the elevator after meetings at Trump Tower in New York City on January 16, 2017. 
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    Amid a flurry of executive orders, we’ll take a closer look at three of President Donald Trump’s initiatives: robust infrastructure spending, new auto manufacturers and a federal hiring freeze. After that, we’ll ask more broadly: can you really run the country like a business? Plus a preview of our new podcast, “Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly” and a look at Syrian entrepreneurship in the U.S.

  • U.S. President Donald Trump leads a meeting with invited business leaders, members of his staff and Vice President Mike Pence in the Roosevelt Room at the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Business leaders included Elon Musk of SpaceX, Wendell Weeks of Corning, Mark Sutton of International Paper, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical, Alex Gorsky of Johnston & Johnson and others. 
 
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    It’s Donald Trump’s first work day as president, and it was a busy one. He met with a number of business leaders to talk trade, and pledged to cut down on regulation by 75 percent. We’ll look at what that means,get a farmer’s take on the Trump administration and take a look at our trade relationships with China and the U.K.. Plus, a conversation with the CEO of Equinox. 

  • President Donald Trump shakes hands with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, as he is joined by the Congressional leadership and his family while he formally signs his cabinet nominations into law, in the President's Room of the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2017. 
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    As of noon today, Donald Trump is the 45th President of the United States. Celebrations will continue into the night, but we’ve convened our Weekly Wrap-ers to talk though Trump’s gloomy speech and what’s ahead. Plus, a look at how the think tank economy is dealing with Trump, and a Pennsylvania factory that’s banking on him. Then, the view from the Mexican border.

  • 01/19/2017: Live from Erie, Pennsylvania

    The story of Erie, Pennsylvania — a manufacturing town that’s lost hundreds of jobs and is looking for President-elect Donald Trump to bring them back — is the story of the 2016 election. Erie County went red for the first time in decades, and now its residents are anxiously waiting to see what Trump’s campaign promises look like in action. To kick off our yearlong reporting project “The Big Promise,” we’re recording the whole show live from a brewery in Erie. We talk to small business owners, an economist, a union leader, an immigrant and one of the folks tasked with resettling refugees here. This story was produced as part of our election series, How the Deck is Stacked, in collaboration with Frontline and PBS NewsHour. You can find more stories related to this series here.

  • Union City, Pennsylvania, once the "chair capital of the world," now searches for a new identity.
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    In a lot of ways, the story of Union City, Pennsylvania is the story of the 2016 presidential election. Folks there have lost hundreds of manufacturing jobs, and now they’re waiting in hope for President-elect Donald Trump to follow through on his campaign promise to bring them back. Then, we look at high-deductible health care plans through a researcher who experimented on himself and risked heart failure in the process.

  • Erie, Pennsylvania was built on manufacturing, and its county went Republican in the 2016 presidential election after voting for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. We dropped in on the Polish Falcons Social Club, Nest 610, to chat with some voters about how their economies are going.
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    To wrap up our yearlong series “How The Deck is Stacked,” we travel to Erie, Pennsylvania, a community built on manufacturing. Erie represents much of the economic dissatisfaction that helped swing the presidential election. We’re kicking off a week of coverage from there with a bunch of stories from a local watering hole. Plus, the latest on Brexit and President-elect Donald Trump’s promised border tax.

  • President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news cenference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. 
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    Welcome to Inauguration week! On this MLK Day we’re looking at three themes of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign: An obsolete NATO, rolling back the estate tax and bringing back coal jobs. We’ll talk about the state of all three and how Trump might act on them after he’s sworn in Friday. Plus: a chat with the CEO of Qualcomm and how getting your kid to sleep became a $325 million industry.

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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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