Oh, so THAT'S what their faces look like! 🙀 RT to help the radio kittens! #NPR #APM #adoptable #kittens #Charlottesville Nina Totenberg Ari Shapiro Kai Ryssdal Korva Coleman Marketplace NPR

Inside a US transport taking off from Kabul. Extraordinary.

Today on Marketplace Morning Report: Sabri Ben-Achour spoke with newly awarded Nobel Prize economist David Card on testing Econ 101 theories in the real world marketplace.org/2021/10/12/nob…

“The Chinese government is using all instruments of national power, from espionage to legal acquisitions and joint ventures to acquire specific technologies, so they can be the world leaders in those technologies” - Michael Orlando, NCSC Marketplace marketplace.org/2021/12/09/chi…

"As one watches China’s extraordinary success in overtaking us in so many arenas, how much of that is as a result of China’s wise choices and how much is as a result of our dumb choices? .. you could probably write either side of that case." bit.ly/3dVbt00

ICYMI Meant to tweet this excellent ⁦Paul Krugman⁩ essay on inflation. An excellent, fair-mined primer, whether you agree with him (as I do) or not. This line should guide all of us: “I’m hanging on the data and wonder every day whether I’m wrong.” nytimes.com/2021/12/16/opi…

President Joe Biden gives updates on COVID-19 as omicron cases rise across the country. bit.ly/3EjHLfY x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Unvaccinated Texas man who had survived a previous COVID-19 infection becomes the first to die in U.S. from Omicron variant newsweek.com/unvaxxed-texas…

This is A HUGE loss for @npr . I love and admire @nprAudie greatly as a broadcaster and as a person.

Everyone at the Oscar’s when Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock on national television #Oscars

“fry attachment rate” my new favorite economic measure.

Congrats Jeremy Hobson on @TheMiddleradio ! From the response it’s getting I’d say this is the show (and podcast) the US is discovering it needs. open.spotify.com/show/5l5B4IoLn…

ChatGPT has crossed 1M+ users in just 5 days. To compare, it took Netflix 41 months, FB - 10 months, and Instagram - 2.5 months. But many haven’t yet realized its full potential. Here are the 10 mindblowing things you can do using it right now:

Part of the confusion about recession rn is because the fake recession signals we had 12 mths - the bullwhip in global manufacturing & the big squeeze on real incomes - are starting to unwind while we are simultaneously getting genuine demand destruction from monetary policy

Retail Sales ex-gas and autos +0.8% MoM Hasn't been higher since Jan 2023

Retail sales for June show consumers are still fine but retailers report increased price sensitivity and deal shopping. The goods share of consumer spending is a great visualization of that behavior--firms are once again competing for wallet share and must offer value

I just got off the phone with a business owner in Mississippi. He’s pumped millions into a business distributing a product he imports from China. His contract with the company prevents him from manufacturing it in the U.S. He also has contracts with a number of large retailers

The trade deficit continued to increase in the past month as imports surged ahead of tariffs.