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It's Friday, so we're going to do our wrap of the week's economic news, plus a little

health care and retail, then some office gossip from American Public Media.

This is Marketplace.

In Denver, I'm Amy Scott in for Kai Rizdahl.

It's Friday, March 20th. Good to have you with us.

A lot has happened in this economy in the week gone by, the effects of the ongoing war, a Fed meeting, some data on inflation and housing.

And we only have six minutes to talk about it with our Friday guests, Zudeep Reddy, joining us from MS Now and

Amera Amokwe with Bloomberg. Welcome back to both of you. Hi, Amy. Amira, I'll start with you

because you cover the Fed. It was, you know, maybe not the most exciting meeting this week in terms of

interest rates staying where they are. But there was some interesting

discussion in Powell's press conference, you know, about how the Fed is thinking about the economy

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