How's that grocery bill looking?
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4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Grocery prices rose less than 2% in March, according to the latest consumer price index. The cost of some staples, including eggs, butter, and cheese, fell from spikes last spring. Certain produce prices moved in the opposite direction. In this episode, how the global economy affects your grocery bill. Plus: The war in Iran ripples through big banks’ earnings, fuel economy regulations soften the blow of high gas prices, and Kai visits Southern California’s Little Saigon ahead of a trip to Vietnam.
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| 1:01.9 | Coming up on the program today, things that are happening in the economy while everybody is watching the war. |
| 1:09.3 | And we will start the latest set of stories from our series, The Age of Work, from |
| 1:14.6 | American Public Media. |
| 1:16.7 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:35.1 | In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl. It is Monday. Today, this one is the 13th of April. Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:44.4 | The global news of the day, I'm going to guess you are up to speed on negotiations not happening, blockade happening. |
| 1:49.4 | Markets, having, it seems, grown accustomed to the whiplash and the misdirection, |
| 1:51.3 | were mostly okay with it all. |
| 1:56.5 | Even oil, without too much argument, the economic bellwether of this war, up only a couple of percent for the global benchmark. |
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