Producers feel the pinch
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this week, the July CPI report showed consumer prices remained steady, despite tariff noise. Today’s producer price index tells a different story: Wholesale prices grew a whopping 3.3% year-over-year. When might retailers pass those higher costs on to consumers? We break it down. Plus: Automated applications sow pessimism among job hunters, New York City marks two months of a ban on tenant-paid broker fees, and U.S. oil refineries face regionally different outlooks.
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| 1:01.0 | You do have to eat your vegetables, kids, but it's going to cost you from American public media. |
| 1:08.8 | This is Marketplace. |
| 1:18.1 | Thank you. from American Public Media. This is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Colin Rizzdahl. |
| 1:20.5 | It is Thursday, today the 14th day of August. |
| 1:23.9 | Good as always to have you along, everybody. |
| 1:26.2 | We are going to begin today with apologies |
| 1:28.7 | to Charles Dickens with a tale of two indicators. We learned earlier this week, Tuesday, I think |
| 1:35.0 | it was, that consumer prices in the form of the Consumer Price Index mostly held steady in July |
| 1:41.2 | despite President Trump's tariffs. One might, again, apologies, call it the best of economic times, or at least the best we might |
| 1:49.7 | expect at this point. |
| 1:52.0 | Today, though, was, if not the actual worst of economic times, certainly an unwelcome |
| 1:56.8 | surprise. |
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