Shop online till you drop
Marketplace
Marketplace
4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Since the COVID pandemic started, you’ve been shopping online more, right? Though consumer spending remained relatively stable over the past year, shopping at nonstore retailers (i.e., e-commerce) grew nearly 8%. We get it, it’s more convenient and safer, pandemic-wise. But how are brick-and-mortars adapting? Also in this episode: Corporate execs spout similar economic lingo, our electric grid’s got green energy shortcomings and rate cut anticipation raises homebuilders’ confidence.
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| 0:21.3 | Hi, I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive. It's a podcast from Marketplace. |
| 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 |
| 1:10.8 | for the threat. Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:15.3 | Hey, happy almost Fed Day, everybody. |
| 1:22.1 | From American Public Media, everybody. From American public media, this is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm kind of Rizdahl. It is Tuesday to day to |
| 1:38.8 | 17th of September good as always to have you along. This time tomorrow the weight will be over money and |
| 1:45.8 | this economy will almost certainly be cheaper. The only question really is how much cheaper. |
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