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Kai Ryssdal
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Marketplace for Monday, August 17, 2015

Aug 17, 2015

Episodes 2961 - 2970 of 5795

  • Who said August is a slow month for business news? We’ve got China, Google and Apple TV to tell you about.

  • Sesame Street will begin airing on pay TV network HBO, Emirates Airline is set to offer the world’s longest airline route, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has approved $250 million for a new Milwaukee Bucks stadium. 

  • Beijing’s latest try at a “What, me worry?” strategy; Target and Vogue get gold stars for marketing; and a new Compton revisits its gangsta past.

  • Call it the yuan, the renminbi, the people’s currency … or just call it an economic indicator. Plus, memoir of a pizza and what’s next for Goo- er, Alphabet.    

  • Warren Buffet speaks and the economy listens; public housing, post-Katrina; and Silicon Beach’s cure for a long wait at the doctor’s office.

  • It’s been a very bad week for media companies. Plus, Jo Ling Kent of FOX Business and Fortune’s Leigh Gallagher join us for the Weekly Wrap.

  • Hedge funds and Oreos; the economics of a scary fire season; and parceling out dinner.  

  • What pay ratios mean, or not; a check-in from Athens; and a credit union’s role in rebuilding New Orleans.

  • If you’re a government enterprise, what’s the surest way to get Congress to leave you alone? Make lots and lots of money. Plus, in environmental news, there’s one loser in the Obama Administration’s rules for limiting carbon-dioxide emissions: natural gas.   

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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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