Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
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, Marketplace Morning Report®and Marketplace Tech® along with our podcasts Make Me Smart, Corner Office and The Uncertain Hour. Visit marketplace.org for more. From American Public Media.
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Apr 10, 2026 • 25min
Navigating long-term unemployment
Kaylee Wells, Marketplace reporter who produced the Ohio/composting segment, explores composting efforts in a trash-importing state. Blake Farmer, Marketplace reporter, profiles people stuck in long-term job searches. Rachel Siegel, Washington Post reporter, analyzes inflation, consumer mood, and housing costs. Sadiq Reddy, journalist and economics commentator, discusses inflation drivers and energy market risks.
Apr 10, 2026 • 14min
Rejecting climate doomerism with solarpunk
Phoebe Wagner, writer, academic, and editor of solarpunk anthologies, guides listeners through solarpunk’s hopeful blend of green tech, design, and social justice. She outlines its DIY, community-minded punk roots. Topics include solarpunk’s origins, its sunny aesthetic, real-world mutual aid tech, and how hopeful fiction reshapes climate imagination.
Apr 10, 2026 • 7min
David Brancaccio reflects on thousands of conversations
A veteran broadcaster revisits thousands of conversations, sharing clips from wide-ranging interviews. Discussions touch on AI-driven stock bubbles and comparisons to past tech booms. Reflections include career highlights and memorable moments from long-running reporting and conversations.
Apr 10, 2026 • 7min
"Nobody can time the market"
Burton Malkiel, Princeton economist and author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, explains why beating the market is so tough. He discusses why index funds often win and why trying to time the market usually backfires. He also covers rebalancing, fleeting market inefficiencies, and his long-running influence on personal investing.
Apr 10, 2026 • 12min
Bytes: Week in Review — Anthropic's new AI model, a referendum on data centers, and NASA livestreams journey to space
Joanna Stern, technology columnist and founder of New Things, discusses Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and its limited Project Glasswing access. She covers why AI companies hold back powerful models and the tradeoffs that creates. Joanna also explores a Wisconsin referendum pushing back on data centers and how astronauts use social media and NASA livestreams to bring space closer to the public.
Apr 9, 2026 • 25min
February inflation data shows more of the same
Doug Bernauer, CEO of Radiant who builds factory-made one-megawatt nuclear reactors for hospitals and data centers. Catherine Ann Edwards, labor economist who studies GDP, inflation, and labor trends. Elizabeth Trowbaugh, reporter covering manufacturing and energy and the plastics shortage. They discuss rising PCE inflation, GDP revision context, plastics shortages from Strait disruptions, and microreactor use cases and testing plans.
Apr 9, 2026 • 18min
Who can stop insider trading on prediction markets?
Meghan McCarty Carino, Marketplace senior reporter who covers prediction markets and regulation, walks through suspiciously timed multimillion-dollar bets and an Israel-related arrest. She explains why prediction markets can be treated as futures, the evolution of commodities insider trading rules, and the debate over whether informed wagers help or harm fairness.
Apr 9, 2026 • 7min
How to freeze out scammers
Shannon Miller, an elder law attorney in Florida who fights financial exploitation of older adults. She recounts a multi-year $2M loss and how courts missed chances to stop transfers. She discusses Florida’s service-by-text law, tools to freeze accounts when scammers are anonymous, and using federal powers to seize crypto wallets.
Apr 9, 2026 • 7min
The "chicken tax" and the U.S. auto industry
John Krafcik, veteran automotive leader and board member at Rivian, shares automotive history and policy perspective. He explains how a 1960s tariff fight led to a 25% tariff that reshaped U.S. truck design and imports. He traces the tariff’s long shadow on pickup economics, market structure, and why full-size pickups stayed dominant.
Apr 9, 2026 • 5min
Trust in government data practices is rapidly deteriorating
Elizabeth Laird, director of equity and civic technology at the Center for Democracy & Technology, studies government data practices and digital equity. She discusses a new survey showing widespread worry about federal data collection. Concerns cut across demographics. Many feel powerless and may avoid benefits, risking chilling effects on health, housing, and services.
