Is it cheaper to borrow now?
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🗓️ 19 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Interest rates fell in the wake of yesterday’s cut by the Federal Reserve — kinda. Truth is, most lenders had anticipated this move for a while and already lowered their rates before the Fed’s announcement. But we’ll have to wait for some of the other ripple effects. Also in this episode: Educators cautiously consider artificial intelligence products, consumers aren’t too interested in the new iPhone and we visit a remote edge of Alaska where national security and climate change clash.
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| 0:27.0 | In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy. |
| 0:31.0 | Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. |
| 0:35.0 | It was the Cold War, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers. |
| 0:39.0 | Today, though, there's another threat out there climate change. |
| 0:43.8 | This could be the warmest year on record. |
| 0:45.9 | Climate changes here. |
| 0:47.0 | Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth. |
| 0:50.8 | And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on |
| 0:54.5 | climate change since the 1950s. I think we will put our troops and our forces at |
| 1:01.0 | higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change. |
| 1:06.1 | This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis to see how the military is preparing |
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| 1:15.0 | On the program today, what is going to happen now that money is cheaper. |
| 1:23.6 | We'll do the finances of football, |
| 1:25.9 | and we'll take a quick trip to Alaska. |
| 1:28.5 | From American public media, this is marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Connor Risdell. It is Thursday, today the 19th of September, or as we like to call it around here, Fed Plus 1. |
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