What are we gonna do with all this empty space?
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ποΈ 10 January 2024
β±οΈ 28 minutes
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Summary
Nearly 20% of office spaces across the U.S. are vacant, new data shows. Many companies solidified their back-to-office policies in the past year, so why are buildings emptier than ever? And in Shanghai, retail vacancies remain higher than pre-pandemic levels β yet small-business owners are struggling to find affordable storefronts to lease. Also in this episode: The Biden administration passed a new rule that could classify millions more gig workers as employees, and economists aren’t concerned about the U.S. trade deficit.
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| 0:45.0 | This is market plans. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizdahl Tuesday, today January 9. Good as always to have you |
| 1:00.5 | long everybody. A little bit of basic math very basic I promise to start |
| 1:06.0 | things off today it's courtesy of the fresh data we got this morning from the |
| 1:09.4 | Commerce Department this past November the United States exported about $254 billion in |
| 1:16.6 | goods and services to other countries. That same month, we imported |
| 1:19.9 | 317 billion dollars in goods and services. You subtract the four, you borrow the one from the three. By my math, the United States had a trade to deficit of 63 billion dollars that month. Exports minus imports is of course a formula and look a |
| 1:35.8 | 63 billion dollar monthly trade deficit doesn't sound good and as the presidential |
| 1:40.9 | campaign heats up if history is any, you are going to be hearing a lot more about it. |
| 1:46.0 | So in an effort to get this out of the way before the noise really overwhelms things, |
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