The economy doesn’t love the heat, either
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A stretch of the U.S. is under a heat advisory this week — but summer starts Thursday. When we talk about a “hot” economy, it’s usually a good thing, but in real life, extreme heat sends economic productivity downhill. We’ll get into why. Also in this episode: Retailers launch copycat sales to compete with Amazon Prime Day, Baltimore longshoremen are finally back to work and the bond market is booming.
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| 0:56.6 | marketplace 22. Remember that game from when you were a kid, telephone? |
| 1:04.0 | People pass a message from person to person, |
| 1:05.6 | and what you get at the end is always way different |
| 1:08.0 | than what you started with? |
| 1:10.2 | Well, that, except for monetary policy. |
| 1:15.0 | From American public media, this one is the 17th of June good as always to have you |
| 1:34.4 | along everybody our particular game of telephone today features the US |
| 1:39.2 | bond market which for give or take the past two months has been having itself a little bit of a rally |
| 1:45.3 | prices have been going up which means yields the interest rates those bonds pay |
| 1:50.5 | have been going down back in April the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was at 4.88%. |
| 1:58.0 | Last week, it hit 4.22%. |
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