Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

It is a big day for the direction of this economy.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrie Beneshore and for David Brancaccio. The Federal Reserve decides today what to do with interest rates.

This affects everything from car loans to mortgages. The Fed started raising them in 2022 as a way to fight inflation and kept them high for most of the past year

with inflation nearly under control the feds signaled that it is time to cut rates.

Susan Schmidt joins us to talk about it. She's head of

public equity at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. Hi Susan. Good

morning. So can we like take a minute just to appreciate the moment we are in?

Why is this such an

important moment well it's an important moment because the market expects the

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