Gotta catch 'em all (as an investment)
Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The value of Pokémon cards soared during the pandemic, and some have climbed in value nearly 4,000% over the past two decades. For some, Pokémon cards are a source of nostalgic joy, but others are seeing them as alternative assets — joining the likes of sneakers, comics, and even crypto. Also, hundreds of flights are cancelled today at airports across the country. And, from Marketplace's "Million Bazillion," little listeners reflect on the role of the $2 bill.
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| 0:00.0 | Recruitment. In finance, it can feel transactional, driven by numbers, not by nuance, |
| 0:09.2 | lacking the personal touch that fuels performance. LHH believes it should be more, by connecting |
| 0:16.6 | people to opportunity, not just skills to roles. Beautiful things happen in finance. A leader |
| 0:24.3 | drives growth. A team finds clarity and complexity. The people you hire become the people you rely on. |
| 0:33.0 | Making 90,000 hours in a career well invested. |
| 0:41.0 | Recruitment, development, career transition. |
| 0:46.0 | LH, a beautiful working world for the world of finance. |
| 0:49.7 | Get the recruitment solutions your business needs to move forward. |
| 0:59.8 | Start today at LHH.com slash beautiful. The government has ordered 4% fewer flights today at 40 airports due to the government shutdown. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. |
| 1:09.1 | Using the data from Flight Aware, cancellations so far this morning are running at 3% from airports, from Chicago O'Hare to Los Angeles, Boston to Atlanta, and beyond. Now, Vegas, Houston, and JFK show 2% canceled so far. In a week, if air traffic controllers are still not getting paid, the required |
| 1:28.7 | cancellations will rise to 10%. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Gensar has an update. According to the |
| 1:34.4 | tracking website, Flight Aware, more than 800 flights within, into or out of the U.S. are canceled, |
| 1:40.7 | with more than 1,000 delayed. The FAA flight limits will be staggered with a 4% |
| 1:45.9 | reduction in effect today. That's scheduled to ramp up to 10% a week from now. American Airlines CEO |
| 1:52.1 | Robert Isam told CNBC this morning today's production is manageable. But next, it becomes a lot |
| 1:58.5 | harder. You're going to be really digging into, you know, some, you know, more heavily traveled areas. |
| 2:04.4 | Isam says he's seeing an impact on passenger bookings as we head into the busy Thanksgiving travel season. |
| 2:10.8 | The FAA says it's mandating the flight reductions because it's seeing signs of stress in the system. |
| 2:16.2 | Some air traffic controllers are calling in sick as they're forced to work without pay during the government shutdown. |
| 2:22.3 | I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace. It's been three months since the U.S. stopped minting pennies. McDonald's is among retailers resorting to little staff tutorials about how rounding works. And don't be surprised when some grocery |
| 2:35.7 | stores ask for exact change if you want to pay cash. And on the subject of rare cash denominations, |
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