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The ripple effects of AI splurging
First up, AI has driven a market moodiness as of late. Broader anxieties have sparked sell-offs, while bullish tech optimism has also boosted stock i…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The TL;DR of Trump's SOTU
Last night, President Donald Trump strongly defended his tariffs in his State of the Union address. He made the case for future tariffs, despite the …
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Germany's chancellor goes to China to talk trade
From the BBC World Service: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says there is a great opportunity to develop ties with China following a meeting with it…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
The link between immigration and longer life
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research spotlights how immigrants may be shaping the health and mortality rates of older Am…
3 weeks ago
AI anxieties and market tumbles
Wall Street is looking to recover after yesterday's big stock market drop. Part of it was due to tariff uncertainty, but part of it was also due to a…
3 weeks ago
Tallying the cost of the Russia-Ukraine war, four years on
From the BBC World Service: Exactly four years ago, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been kil…
3 weeks ago
Trump dusts off obscure legal authority for new tariffs
Following Friday’s Supreme Court decision striking down a number of President Trump’s tariffs, the administration is moving to impose a global 15% ta…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Fallout from the Supreme Court's tariff decision
On Friday, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s sweeping “retaliatory” tariffs, ruling that he doesn’t have the authority to impose them u…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Trump's tariffs continue to confound
From the BBC World Service: Governments around the world are scrambling to react to President Trump’s decision to impose a sweeping 15% tariff on all…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Building Tomorrow: A Special Look at the Future of Housing
“Building Tomorrow” is a special collaboration between Marketplace and This Old House Radio Hour that asks a simple but urgent question: How do we bu…
3 weeks, 3 days ago