Mar 30, 2020

Is it ethical to shop online right now?

Feeling tempted to shop online during self-quarantine? Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

Plus: how deep this recession will get, how Americans are confronting the bills due this week and a conversation with rapper, singer and writer Dessa.

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COVID-19

How bad will this recession be, and how long will it last?

by Sabri Ben-Achour

Mar 30, 2020

Just because the COVID-19 recession came on incredibly quickly does not mean it will be a quick recovery.

The COVID-19 recession will likely have a slow recovery. Above, an empty 42nd Street in Manhattan on March 25.

Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

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COVID-19

Video games attract millions of players as the world "shelters in place"

by Jasmine Garsd

Mar 30, 2020

With more people stuck inside during the COVID-19 pandemic, some are flocking to console and computer games.

What to do while stuck at home? Play video games, of course.

Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Nintendo of America

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COVID-19

Is it ethical to shop the sales right now?

by Kristin Schwab

Mar 30, 2020

Shopping is vital for the economy. That doesn't mean folks feel great about discretionary purchases right now.

Feeling tempted to shop online during self-quarantine?

Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

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Musician-writer Dessa on what happens when artists' gigs go away

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

Mar 30, 2020

"What are we supposed to do when we've got to stay apart?" said musician and writer Dessa.

“I think we are gonna have this big boom of art in the next few months as people are hunkering down over their keyboards,” Dessa says.

Sara Fish

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China's industries resume production as government officials ease restrictions

by Jennifer Pak

Mar 30, 2020

China goes back to work, not to normality.

Chinese industrial workers return to the job.

STR/AFP via Getty Images

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Countries race to limit, ban exports of masks, ventilators, other gear

by Scott Tong

Mar 30, 2020

Individual governments have defended decisions to keep medical equipment at home, arguing they must take care of their medical workers and patients first.

A program to monitor global protectionism found governments placed 46 different export controls on coronavirus-related safety supplies and machines this year. Above, masks are produced at factory in Germany on March 12.

Thomas Kienzle/AFP via Getty Images

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Much of the economy has stopped. Rent and other payments haven't.

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal

Mar 30, 2020

Millions of people's incomes have been reduced or disappeared completely because of COVID-19, and rent day is just around the corner.

A pedestrian walks by a San Francisco restaurant closed because of COVID-19.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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Music from the episode

Taro alt-J

To Zion Ms. Lauryn Hill, Carlos Santana

Darling Real Estate

Fishin' Takénobu

School Four Tet

1 Thing Amerie

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

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