Economy

The Call-In: Answering Your Questions About Owning A Home

8:09am May 28, 2017

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, and Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary, about what to do and what not to do when buying a home.

Latest College Graduates Enter A More Optimistic Economy

5:53pm May 27, 2017

Harvard Business School professor Mihir Desai says the unemployment rate is the lowest its been in a decade. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about the increasing options for recent graduates.

3 Percent Economic Growth: Is It Possible?

7:59am May 27, 2017

President Trump's budget is predicated on 3 percent growth in the U.S. economy. Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal talks with Scott Simon about whether it's possible.

Market Forces May Impact Emissions More Than Climate Agreements

7:59am May 27, 2017

by Christopher Joyce

Today President Trump is at the G7 summit and high on the agenda is climate change. Many world leaders are imploring Trump stay in the global climate agreement, but emissions are going down already.

Episode 774: Unspeakable Trademark

4:18pm May 26, 2017

You can name your business whatever you want. But the government won't register it as a trademark if it thinks it's offensive. It gets weird when you try to decide what is too offensive to trademark.

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Peter Singer speaks at TED2013 - The Young, The Wise, The Undiscovered, Session 12 - A Ripple Effect, February 25 - March 1, 2013, Long Beach, California, Photo: James Duncan Davidson/TED

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Peter Singer: How Can We Be More Effective Altruists?

9:11am May 26, 2017

by NPR/TED Staff

Philosopher Peter Singer's work focuses on "effective altruism" — how to do the most good to make the world a better place. He argues effective giving involves balancing empathy with reason.

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LeBron James' Return To Cleveland Illustrates Remarkable Economic Experiment

6:38pm May 25, 2017

by Kenny Malone

Professional sports generate a tremendous amount of money, but it's tricky to know exactly what part of sports generates that money. LeBron James unintentionally ran a nearly perfect economic experiment by unexpectedly leaving Cleveland and then, three years later, returning with almost no warning. A pair of economists have now used James' prodigal son data to look at the financial impact a single superstar can have on a local economy.

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Countries that received the most remittance dollars from the U.S. in 2015

A Proposed New Tax, Mainly On Latinos, To Pay For Trump's Border Wall

3:55pm May 25, 2017

by Jason Beaubien

It's called the Border Wall Funding Act of 2017. And it would place a new tax on money being wired to Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Americans For Prosperity's Tim Phillips On Trump's Budget Proposal

7:46am May 25, 2017

President Trump's new budget plan sets up a fight between Trump's populists and small-government advocates. Steve Inskeep talks with Tim Phillips of the Koch-associated group Americans for Prosperity.

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Pumpjacks in North Dakota's Bakken oil patch extract oil from deep underground. Oil production has grown nationally in recent months to 9.3 million barrels of oil per day.

Boom Time Again For U.S. Oil Industry, Thanks To OPEC

9:39pm May 24, 2017

by Amy Sisk

The oil industry is coming out of a two-year slump after OPEC cut production. In oil-rich North Dakota, there are more energy jobs than available workers and local businesses are seeing a revival.

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