Segments From This Episode

• The Weekly Wrap: Fed Chair Powell on the labor market

  “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal speaks to the Wall Street Journal’s Kate Davidson and the New York Times’ Jeanna Smialek about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s labor market remarks, inflation and proposed COVID-19 relief.

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• This year’s tax season is likely to be more stressful than usual

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  For a lot of people, the last year has been weird, from a tax standpoint.

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• Maryland passes new tax on internet advertising

  by Amy Scott

  

  The tax targets tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon and will raise an estimated $250 million. But a legal fight is likely.

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• Online alcohol sales rise during the pandemic

  by Scott Tong

  

  What’s on tap for American drinkers? Could be free delivery, one consultant says.

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• For U.S. service firms, access to China still mixed

  by Sabri Ben-Achour and Jennifer Pak

  

  China sells goods into the U.S. market easily, but American service providers face a range of barriers in China, which vary across industries.

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