Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

This could be the warmest year on record.

Climate change is here.

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

I believe I warned you yesterday, we are going to do a Bond market story from American public media.

This is marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdall Tuesday, today 24 September. Good as always to have you

along everybody.

We begin today with a little bit of a, wait, what, story about the bond market?

The Fed cut its target interest rate last week, as you know.

But since then, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has actually gone up.

We talk about the 10-year most every day on this program because it is the benchmark for lots of other interest rates,

mortgages and car loans, corporate borrowing.

So when its yield goes up, it is not in fact getting cheaper to borrow money across the economy.

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