As some retailers retreat, others pounce
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
It’s a weird time for retailers. Some have announced layoffs and closures, while others are looking to expand their footprint. So what gives? Turns out, some stores are hoping to use this shaky economic moment to come out ahead during either a downturn or a recovery. Plus, politics and markets meet in the Weekly Wrap, and Indigenous creatives carve out space for Native perspectives in gaming and cosplay.
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| 0:00.0 | As usual on a Friday so much to talk about in this economy so very little time. |
| 0:08.4 | From American public media, this is Marketplace. |
| 0:21.2 | In Los Angeles I'm Kai Rizdal. |
| 0:23.0 | It is Friday today as I said the 21st of April. |
| 0:26.0 | It is always to have you along. |
| 0:28.2 | If I could figure out how to do it I'd let all of you all pick your own adventure on |
| 0:32.7 | where we should start on our Friday economic retrospective. |
| 0:36.2 | Your choices would be the Fed, China or the debt limit and the politics of this economy. |
| 0:42.9 | There's really no way to lose in this because we're going to talk about them all. |
| 0:46.0 | Lynette Lopez is at Insider, Sudi, is at Politico. |
| 0:48.9 | Hey, too. |
| 0:49.9 | Hey, Kai, no way to lose. |
| 0:51.7 | No way to lose. |
| 0:52.7 | That's right. |
| 0:53.7 | Well, let's see what the next seven and a half, eight minutes bring. |
| 0:55.6 | So deep I want to start with you. |
| 0:57.0 | We're going to start with the debt limit. |
| 0:59.1 | I would like you to discuss for me not the nuts and bolts of Speaker MacArthur's plan, |
| 1:04.2 | but whether you think if it passes, come Wednesday or Thursday, it will get negotiations |
| 1:11.0 | actually started or will the White House say no, no, no, all you all figure this out. |
| 1:15.0 | We are still too far away from resolution on the debt ceiling. |
| 1:18.2 | It's like four days now. |
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