Podcast Episodes

The March unemployment rate fell — but there's a catch

The U.S. economy added 178,000 new jobs in March, and the unemployment rate went down. That’s a big improvement from last month’s disappointing jobs …

3 weeks, 1 day ago

A new tariff on imported medication

President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday that threatened tariffs of up to 100% on imported medications. The executive order also ov…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX's IPO, Iran threatens U.S. tech firms and California's new AI executive order

On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” Big Tech operations in the Middle East from companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft could…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

When will oil markets recover?

President Trump said last night that military attacks on Iran will end in two or three weeks. But the effect on the global oil market will last much …

3 weeks, 2 days ago

One wild year of Trump's tariffs

Happy first tariff-versary? Despite the fact that many of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were recently struck down, small businesses acro…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

About that presidential address...

The president made the case for the Iran war, and markets were not impressed. After President Donald Trump's address to the nation last night, the pr…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Reflecting on the year in tariffs

A year ago today, the president pulled out a chart in the now paved-over Rose Garden and set the global economy on fire. He announced his so-called “…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Wait...where did my retirement money go?

What happens to your retirement savings when you leave a job? And if you’ve forgotten about an old 401(k) account, how do you track that money down? …

3 weeks, 2 days ago

34 days without internet in Iran

It is day 34 of the internet blackout in Iran. But while it is the longest in their history, it does not mean that Iranians are without internet.

In I…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Happy Liberation-Day-tariff-palooza-versary

Thursday marks one year since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on basically all imported goods — how time flies! The name of the game was u…

3 weeks, 3 days ago