Segments From This Episode

• What Fed Chair Powell had to say today

  The Federal Open Market Committee today concluded its last meeting for 2020. “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal breaks down some key takeaways from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference.

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• How we shop for the holidays is different this year

  by Marielle Segarra

  

  People are shopping online more, buying gifts for fewer people — and in some cases, changing up what they usually give.

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• For small retailers, COVID-19 is changing business, but to what extent?

  by Sean McHenry

  

  It might depend on what is sold and where it’s sold. We check in with three business owners to see how things look in the middle of the holiday shopping season.

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• What the SolarWinds hack could mean for the U.S. economy

  by Kai Ryssdal

  

  “I think it’s going to take months, maybe a year to figure out where they went,” says New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger.

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• “We’re definitely counting on a comeback”

  by Kai Ryssdal and Alli Fam

  

  That’s what the president of Mississippi-based Golding Barge Line says he’s hoping for in the new year.

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• Losing a job hasn’t translated to losing health care — so far

  by Samantha Fields

  

  Most people who’ve lost jobs during the pandemic didn’t get health insurance at work.

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• Number of Americans moving homes hits lowest level in 73 years

  by Sabri Ben-Achour

  

  Migration patterns could change in a work-from-home world brought on by the pandemic.

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