Access to federal data in flux
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Last month, key federal data sets were removed from government websites following actions by the Donald Trump administration, and researchers rushed to preserve the information. David Van Riper of IPUMS, an organization dedicated to improving public access to government data, talked to “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal about the importance of these statistics. Plus, Walmart expands and diversifies, ChatGPT has lots of rivals as well as a huge user base, and the U.S. solar industry adapts without Biden-era tax credits.
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| 0:58.8 | Corporate news to start, government data and the absence of it to follow. |
| 1:05.4 | And then they keep using that word. |
| 1:08.5 | It does not mean what they think it means. |
| 1:11.3 | From American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 1:20.7 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizzdahl. |
| 1:25.0 | It is Thursday today, the 20th of February. Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:30.9 | Those of you who've been wondering what's going on on Wall Street, how traders seem so sanguine, given the uncertainty. |
| 1:37.9 | The answer came to us early this morning, 7 a.m. local time in Bentonville, Arkansas, to be specific, |
| 1:43.7 | the quarterly earnings call from the world's biggest retailer, during which Walmart's CEO, Doug McPillan touted some of the highlights. |
| 1:51.3 | Advertising sales were up 29 percent last quarter, he said. Its third-party marketplace grew 34 percent. Membership income grew double digits as well. But careful listeners will have noticed that |
| 2:03.7 | none of those things are actually retail sales. Daniel Ackerman gets us going with what |
| 2:09.4 | Walmart's up to besides just selling things. Walmart, the quintessential big box, right? |
| 2:15.9 | Not anymore. They've done a pretty good job the last couple of years investing in these alternative |
| 2:22.0 | businesses. |
| 2:23.3 | Michael Baker heads consumer research at T.A. Davidson. |
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