Kai Ryssdal

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[upbeat music] In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Ryssdal.

Monday, today 21 September, good as it always is to have you along, everybody.

We're gonna mostly take a pass on the old standbys this week, jobs and inflation and data, and we are turning for our economic through line instead to foreign affairs.

Taxes and fees apply.

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Happy autumnal equinox eve, everyone.

Also, when was the last time you posted on LinkedIn? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

[upbeat music] In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Ryssdal.

It is, as I just said, Friday, the 18th of September, is what this one is.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

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LinkedIn says that its user base has grown from eight hundred and seventy-five million in 2022 to one point three billion people today.

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[upbeat music] In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Ryssdal.

Wednesday today, 16 September.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

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To review then, the Federal Reserve did indeed raise its benchmark interest rate today, first time in three years.

Mm-hmm

... bringing a Marketplace, uh, you know, with Kai Ryssdal and his team here.

So we had been over, starting...

The, the minimal backstory is my wife and I had been living in China for four years, and we were based in Shanghai and Beijing, but we spent most of our time on the road to small towns of eight, you know, eight million people or whatever.

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In New York, I'm Sabree Benishor, in for Kai Ryssdal.

It is Friday, September 11th.

Good to have you along.

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[upbeat music] In New York, I'm Sabri Ben-Achour in for Kai Ryssdal.

It is Thursday, September 10th.

We are glad to have you with us.

Would you share a mortgage with your best friend? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

[upbeat music] In New York, I'm Kristin Schwab, in for Kai Ryssdal.

It's Wednesday, September 9th, and it's good to be here with you.

$100 a barrel.

Are we officially in a trade war? From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

[upbeat music] In New York, I'm Kristin Schwab in for Kai Ryssdal.

It's Tuesday, September 8th, and it's good to be here with you.

So governments usually do not formally declare a trade war.

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[upbeat music] In New York, I'm Sabri Ben-Achour in for Kai Ryssdal.

It is Monday, September 7th, and we are glad to have you with us.

We say it all the time on this show, the engine of the US economy, the force that has kept it chugging along through tariffs and wars and more wars and natural disasters, is the US consumer.