Marketplace All-in-One
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Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace® is the leading business news program in the nation. We bring you clear explorations of how economic news affects you, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. The Marketplace All-in-One podcast provides each episode of the public radio broadcast programs Marketplace,...
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Making AI work — for work
In his new book, Wall Street Journal tech columnist Christopher Mims offers a guide for getting the most out of the technology. He's compiled two doze...
A commodities correction
The precious metals market has been on a tear, but experienced a severe correction last week. Part of it has to do with the nomination of Kevin Warsh...
The impact of restricting SNAP benefits
In January, five states enacted laws restricting people who receive food aid from buying sugary beverages and snacks. About a dozen more will follow s...
What's behind gold's plunge?
From the BBC World Service: After a historic rally, gold has seen its biggest drop in more than a decade. Silver is also down after sharp swings in As...
Who is Trump's Fed chair pick?
This morning, President Donald Trump revealed his choice to lead the Federal Reserve: It's Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor and more recent Fed crit...
How schools teach about capitalism is changing
An increasing number of states in the U.S. not only require high schools to teach financial literacy but also require them to incorporate the fundamen...
The fight over the Panama Canal rages on
From the BBC World Service: Panama’s Supreme Court has annulled a contract allowing for a Hong Kong company to operate two ports on the major shipping...
What it costs to pass down a language
Author and journalist Aymann Ismail wants his kids to grow up with a real connection to their Egyptian roots, including speaking Arabic. For his famil...
A recycling startup joins the AI boom
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino takes a tour of Redwood Material’s new R&D Lab with CTO Colin Campbell. Redwood, an EV battery recycling startup,...
The messy, tricky, hairy task of economic forecasting
We’ve been deluged with the annual economic and market forecasts that traditionally mark the turn of a new year. Is it worth paying attention to these...
Could a shutdown over ICE be in the cards?
There's a chance that the federal government will shut down late this week over reform and funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which also...
Infrastructure lessons from the dot-com bubble
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino speaks with Paul Vixie, vice president at AWS Security and an early internet innovator, about the rapid buildout o...
Will Trump's proposals improve housing affordability?
President Donald Trump is rolling out plans to make housing more affordable. He's ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase $200 billion in mortg...
Digging in to defense spending
The second deadly shooting in Minnesota by immigration agents has some Democrats in Washington renewing calls for reform to the Department of Homeland...
ICE's presence hits small businesses in Minnesota
Following yet another deadly shooting by ICE agents in Minnesota, more than 60 CEOs there have now signed a letter calling on federal, state, and loca...
Europe bets big on wind
From the BBC World Service: A group of European countries has signed a clean energy pact, committing to build an offshore wind power grid in the North...
Raising the “speed limit” on AI’s “information highway”
Billions of dollars has been poured into the AI economy in recent years. As part of a new series about what the AI economy means for you, Marketplace...
Bytes: Week in Review - SpaceX eyes an IPO, community members want legal commitments from Micron, and YouTube to ditch AI slop
A Micron memory chip factory in upstate New York is wrangling with local groups who want legal assurances the project will benefit the local community...
How would a credit card interest rate cap even work?
President Donald Trump acknowledged yesterday that he'll need help from Congress to cap credit card interest at 10%. He also talked about this at the...
What's next for Cuba after Venezuela?
Following the president's intervention in Venezuela, the Trump administration is escalating threats against several sovereign nations. Now, Cuba is se...
Stocks rally in Europe as relations thaw in Davos
From the BBC World Service: The world has been reacting to President Donald Trump's announcement of a vague framework agreement over the future of Gre...
Help! My coworker wants a copy of my house key!
Ever wrestled with an unusual work problem and didn’t know where to turn? In our recurring advice column, “Work Drama,” we try to find answers to your...
Unraveling the complex knot of an AI-generated hoax
In the era of AI, sometimes a story is really just too good to be true, even if the initial evidence suggests otherwise.
And as artificially eng...
Welcome to the 'infocalypse'
Information Apocalypse Now.
AI content is flooding social feeds and its getting increasingly hard to determine what is real versus what is fake....
Trump is ready for Davos. Is Davos ready for Trump?
Today is the second day of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It's a meeting that attracts some of the world's most powerful peop...
Fed independence goes before the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments tomorrow in the case around President Donald Trump's bid to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over mo...
Trump's Greenland ambitions dominate Davos
From the BBC World Service: It's day two of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where President Donald Trump's goal of acquiring Gr...
How "surveillance pricing" charges one online customer more than another for the same item
Consumers have heard of “dynamic pricing,” when the prices are based on demand within a single moment. But whether they know it or not, they’re also c...
Bytes: Week in Review – New chip exports for China, Microsoft to pay electricity for AI data centers, and Gemini will power Apple’s AI
Those massive AI data centers going in across the country can use as much energy as an entire city. President Trump said this week he wants tech compa...
How much money is "enough"?
What does it mean to have “enough” money? Reema Khrais explores the feeling behind this question — the fear, comparison and the way “not enough” can f...
Teaching students to 'be better than a robot'
When it comes to AI, educators biggest worry: cheating.
With the click of a button, students can form papers, generate test answers or even fini...
Fact-checking Trump's economic record
President Donald Trump traveled to Michigan yesterday to tout the economy's performance during his second administration. He spoke at the Detroit Econ...
Microsoft agrees to foot AI data center costs
The data centers needed to power AI are controversial in many communities. People worry about that extra demand driving up their electricity bills, wh...
In the face of a trade war, China defies the odds
From the BBC World Service: China has announced record export numbers and the largest trade surplus in global history: $1.2 trillion. Despite the impa...
This Swiss city wants to become the bitcoin capital of Europe
The pretty Swiss lakeside town of Lugano has set out to become Europe’s bitcoin capital, with the aim of attracting bitcoin companies and the cryptocu...
Building a home with future fires in mind
On Jan. 7, 2025, the Eaton and Palisades Fires began, killing 31 people and destroying around 13,00 homes in the Los Angeles area. A year later, resid...
Bytes: Week in Review – New year, new state AI laws, new showdown with Trump admin.
X, formerly Twitter, is facing a global backlash because users are directing the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to generate non-consensual intimate imag...
Surveillance cameras livestreamed for the internet to see
For the past couple months, YouTube technologist Benn Jordan has been investigating Flock Safety surveillance cameras. With the help of 404 Media, the...
Farming in the digital age
Over a century ago, farmers exchanged their horses and plows for the automated tractor. Generations of farmers have come, gone and watched technology...
How convergence will define the tech sector in 2026
Artificial intelligence isn't just chatbots. The technology is being integrated all across our economy and our lives. And that convergence of AI and r...