Bird flu spreads its wings

Marketplace

American Public Media

Business, News

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As bird flu proliferates across U.S. farms, infecting chickens, cows and even humans, some public health experts worry that that funding to deal with it has been inadequate. Above all, they say we need stronger incentives for farmers and farmworkers to test for and report cases of the virus. Plus, the manufacturing sector’s outlook remains mixed, two-thirds of Americans say they have been victims of a financial scam and what could happen if we removed government spending from GDP calculations.

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0:00.0	Are we in a trade war yet?
0:04.9	From American public media, this is Marketplace.
0:15.0	In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzdell.
0:21.1	It is Monday today.
0:22.5	This one is the third of March.
0:24.5	Good as always to have you along, everybody.
0:26.7	We are going to get right to it.
0:28.7	Tariffs.
0:29.7	President Trump today at the White House taking questions.
0:33.9	Is there any room left for Canada and Mexico to make a deal before midnight?
0:37.3	And should we expect those Chinese tariffs, the extra 10% to take it back tomorrow? No room left for Canada and Mexico to make a deal before midnight? And should we expect those Chinese tariffs, the extra 10% to take effect tomorrow?
0:41.0	No room left for Mexico or for Canada.
0:43.8	No, the tariffs, you know, they're all set.
0:45.9	They go into effect tomorrow.
0:47.3	25% on everything from Canada and everything from Mexico, 20% total now on everything from China, until the president
0:58.4	changes his mind, TBD on that one. But if you had been watching his remarks on cable news,
1:04.3	you'd have seen the stock market fall in real time as he was speaking. So first of all,
1:09.4	there was that. Second of all, the economic policy
1:12.4	confusion that has marked the first six or so weeks of the Trump administration is starting
1:17.5	to play out in the actual economy. Case in point, two indicators of the U.S. manufacturing sector
1:23.2	that were out today. S&P Global's was up. The one from the Institute for Supply Management
1:28.4	was down. Marketplace's Elizabeth Trowball gets us going. There's a word that Aaron McLaughlin with
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