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Marketplace All-in-One

A business reporter goes to the rodeo

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, as part of our ongoing “Tricks of the Trades” series, Marketplace’s David Brancaccio heads to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. With a mic in hand and a Stetson on head, Brancaccio gleans lessons on labor, trade policy and bang for your buck from the businesspeople who dish up Texas-sized portions of food to nearly 2.5 million rodeo attendees. Also, the Federal Reserve is poised to have a new chief bank regulator.

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everything secure. Today, lessons from a carnival of economics. I'm David Brancaccio. Here's the

1:03.0

assignment I got. A business reporter goes to the rodeo. It's part of our series on what we can

1:08.2

learn from face-to-face markets in a world where so much commerce has gone remote and digital.

1:14.7

Now, what's advertised is the biggest livestock show and rodeo in the world is going on in Texas right now.

1:20.3

Rodeo Houston, where lessons on the marketplace play out in many arenas.

1:28.1

Oh, Houston, let's go!

1:30.8

I say, rodeo, you think, you know,

1:33.3

Yeeha, and from the other night here at the rodeo.

1:36.9

Look at those long lids fly!

1:39.3

But what I find here is not just a single vibe.

1:53.4

Houston rapper of legend, Bun B, celebrating his birthday with 75,000 of his closest friends on the fourth night here.

1:58.2

Again, at this livestock show and rodeo.

2:01.8

People always think of, you know, cowboys, country music, this and that.

2:05.5

It blends every crowd that's out here in Houston.

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