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Kai Ryssdal
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Marketplace for Friday, May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

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  • Villagers in Liuchong have petitioned several times to all levels of government in China to complain about their polluted drinking water. Local officials finally began piping water from the nearby Han River, charging villagers for the service. 
    Rob Schmitz/Marketplace

    “Grey’s” long life, the fraught relationship between galleries and museums, and what it’s like to live in a Chinese “Cancer Village.”

  • A still from Google's demo video for Google Home.
    Screenshot via Google

    An art heist, displaced oil workers and Google’s new Amazon Echo competitor. 

  • Why did consumer prices go up in April? Plus, Twitter messes with its core feature. We’re also talking about the future of computing with HP Inc. CEO Dion Weisler and all about Donald Trump’s legacy.

  • After 80 years of making the traditional qipao dress, Master Chu Hongsheng, a tailor who sells his dresses at a shop on the Street of Eternal Happiness, is retiring at the age of 95.
    Rob Schmitz/Marketplace

    Venture capitalism is open to more than just the rich. Plus, why guessing oil prices is as easy as guessing the weather and tales from China’s Street of Eternal Happiness.

  • People watch an art piece entitled "Shadow Sites II" by Jananne Al-Ani, inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California on April 28, 2016. The newly redesigned museum integrates a 10-story expansion in a new building and will open to the public on May 14, 2016. 
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    Is the heyday of hedge funds over? We look at how competition is making the job of hedge fund manager less lucrative. San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art is reopening after renovations. The museum is trying to get people to look up from their phones in one of the most distracted cities in the world. Also, the Weekly Wrap of the last few days in economic news. 

  • Marketplace for Thursday, May 12, 2016
    Jeffrey Thompson

    Why Target has teamed up with researchers to determine what makes people buy groceries; Instagram updated its logo, and received a loud and grumpy response, we look at what’s behind the logo change; and Krissy Clark, host of Marketplace’s Uncertain Hour podcast, talks to Kai about welfare reform, 20 years later. 

  • Facebook is trying to increase an already massive user base.
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    Kai talks to Senior Tech Correspondent Molly Wood about Facebook’s Trending Topics sidebar and it’s role in distributing media; why impeaching Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff might be a good thing for their economy; and a look at troubling statistics about the increasing homeless population in Los Angeles. 

  • Marketplace for Tuesday, May 10, 2016

    The Food and Drug Administration is working on redefining the term “healthy,” we look at what that means for food producers; Kai talks to the CEO of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline for the latest installment of the Corner Office podcast; and how consumers are increasingly turning to e-commerce, leading malls and department stores to pursue creative tactics to bring in foot traffic. 

  • West Virginia's primary is Tuesday. Hillary Clinton has said, "We're going to put a lot of coal miners out of business." Donald Trump promised, "We're going to put the miners back to work." Above, signs at a Charleston, West Virginia, rally on Thursday.
 
    BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

    West Virginia’s primary is around the corner, and it’s stirred up questions about the state’s coal mining industry; Kai discusses Donald Trump’s stance on the country’s economic debt; and the competitive business of Hollywood bus tours. 

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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.

Produced and distributed by American Public Media (APM) our popular business news podcasts are available worldwide on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and RSS Feeds and any place else where you get your podcasts.

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