Feeling down on the farm
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
A growing number of farmers can’t afford to plant their crops this year. It’s because of rising costs for diesel, fertilizer, and equipment parts — coupled with low crop prices. On today’s episode, we talk to an Ohio soybean and corn farmer. Plus, how our economic landscape has changed after four weeks of war. Also, we break down the new consumer sentiment survey. And finally, a New York City artist shares his experience with the job market and gig economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, for a calmer time, huh? |
| 0:05.4 | From American public media. |
| 0:07.9 | This is Marketplace. |
| 0:14.9 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kai Rizzdahl. It is Friday. Today, this one is the 27th of March. Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 0:27.9 | One does have a certain yearning, does one not, for the days and weeks when the news of this economy was not this? |
| 0:37.0 | These are obviously not, though, the days and weeks we are living in, |
| 0:39.8 | so we are going to make sense of it as best we can. David Gura is at Bloomberg. |
| 0:43.4 | Courtney Brown is at Axios. Hey, you too? |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, Kai. |
| 0:46.5 | Hey, Kai. Courtney, let me begin with you. And I'll begin on Monday of this week on this program. |
| 0:52.7 | I said, and I believe I'm quoting myself here, the markets are an idiot. |
| 0:57.1 | They were fallen for every head fake coming out of the White House and coming out of the president and his advisors about what was going to happen with this war and what the economic impacts were going to be. |
| 1:07.6 | And I wonder if five days later now, four days later on a Friday afternoon, |
| 1:11.7 | given today's action, maybe they're wising up. Which markets were you talking about? Were you |
| 1:18.2 | excluding the bond market from this? Well, wait, wait, wait. We're going to hang on. We're going to get |
| 1:23.9 | the bonds in a minute. I want to talk like equities and oil and all that. Now, I'm coming back to bonds. So go with the equities and oil. |
| 1:31.0 | I mean, I think that's right. I think we saw some, you know, equities under pressure today. |
| 1:37.3 | I think the stock market is kind of like that very hyper, you know, college student that's not exactly |
| 1:46.4 | focused on what's happening right in front of them. I think that, you know, there is a war going |
| 1:54.5 | on. And every economist I talk to and have talked to this week, the big question is, |
| 1:59.7 | how long is this conflict going to |
| 2:01.5 | last? Is it going to widen? Is it going to escalate? What are going to be the, what are going to be |
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