Marketplace All-in-One
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Mar 10, 2026 • 6min
A wild ride for oil prices
Nancy Marshall-Genzer, tech and defense reporter, outlines the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute and its fallout. Carla Javier, consumer safety reporter, breaks down the surge in product recalls and why regulators are stepping up. Elizabeth Troval, energy reporter, walks through U.S. oil production prospects amid wild global price swings.
Mar 10, 2026 • 7min
What do Girl Scouts get out of selling cookies online?
Wendy Liu, Chief Revenue Officer at Girl Scouts of the USA who oversees the cookie program and digital sales, discusses how digital transactions now make up over 40% of revenue. She highlights girls building online sites, learning digital marketing and CRM tools, and making sales decisions with caregiver guidance. Safety training and parent-guided setups keep the experience fun and educational.
Mar 9, 2026 • 25min
Consumers were pessimistic before the war. Now what?
Daniel Ackerman, Marketplace reporter who breaks down the New York Fed consumer expectations survey. Mitchell Hartman, Marketplace reporter and historian who compares today to the 1970s oil shocks. Catherine Rampell, opinion writer on oil markets and macro risk. They discuss surging oil and commodity prices, supply disruptions and gasoline pressures, historical parallels to past oil crises, and how shifting expectations can shape spending.
Mar 9, 2026 • 6min
Oil prices and war in the Middle East
Carlos Morales, Marketplace reporter who covers regional agriculture, shares a border story about a livestock threat. Nancy Marshall-Genzer, energy and economy reporter, describes talks of coordinated oil reserve releases. Julia Coronado, macro policy expert and professor, explains how soaring oil and gas prices squeeze consumers and risk slowing growth. Multiple short, focused discussions unpack these fast-moving developments.
Mar 9, 2026 • 6min
An eye on labor force participation
David Brancaccio, veteran Marketplace journalist and interviewer. Carla Javier, Marketplace reporter covering the labor report. They unpack why participation fell, how aging and gig work shift the labor pool, immigration’s impact, and ongoing demand for skilled roles. They also touch on how tech and biological risks intersect and the call for broader governance.
Mar 9, 2026 • 8min
California’s one-stop shop for data brokers to delete consumers' data
Nicole Turner-Lee, a Brookings Institution senior fellow on tech policy and digital equity. She explains California’s DROP tool and the Delete Act. She outlines what kinds of brokered data can be removed and the law’s limits. She discusses trade-offs between personalization and privacy and whether other states might copy this approach.
Mar 6, 2026 • 26min
Job numbers fall short of expectations
Sadiq Reddy, an economics and business reporter who explains inflation and geopolitical risks. Courtney Brown, a national politics and policy reporter who analyzes labor trends and policy impacts. They discuss the surprising 92,000 job loss and rising unemployment. They debate stagflation risks from oil, health care job cuts, trade and tariff effects, and indicators to watch for future labor weakness.
Mar 6, 2026 • 20min
The big money in the Texas primaries
Blaise Gainey, a Texas politics reporter for KUT and The Texas Newsroom, breaks down the big-money primary fights and what they mean for upcoming runoffs. He highlights why record spending flowed into competitive statewide races. He also explains the Texas Railroad Commission’s surprising role in oil and gas politics and riffs on voter concerns like jobs and affordability.
Mar 6, 2026 • 7min
A month of job losses
Joe Tidy, BBC tech reporter who covers domestic robots, and Diane Swank, KPMG chief economist who analyzes U.S. labor data. They discuss the surprising February payroll drop and its sectoral drivers. They also explore how close home robots are to real chores, demos, human oversight, privacy tradeoffs, and realistic adoption timelines.
Mar 6, 2026 • 7min
Gasoline and diesel prices are spiking
Elizabeth Troval, Marketplace reporter on regional retail growth in Dallas–Fort Worth. Kaylee Wells, energy and transportation reporter tracking diesel spikes and freight impacts. Nova Safo, energy reporter on-the-ground about gasoline movements. They discuss rapid gasoline jumps after Middle East conflict, diesel topping $4 and consequences for shipping, and how supermarket construction is responding to southern migration.
