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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The economic reports out this week gave a fuzzy view of the economy, but next week will be all about jobs: job openings, labor productivity, and the latest jobs report. So far this year, employment has been pretty even-keeled — despite tariff uncertainty. Will May data be any different? Also in this episode: A field guide to the ultra-wealthy and a Minnesota family of seven (soon to be eight) grapples with higher costs.
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0:57.6 | End of the week, almost the end of the month. Where does this economy stand anyway, huh? |
1:04.8 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace. |
1:17.7 | Thank you. This is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Colin Rizzdahl. It is Friday today, the last weekday in May. |
1:23.8 | It is always to have you along, everybody. |
1:26.4 | Inflation, trade and tariffs, the general economic zeitgeist. |
1:31.0 | If that sounds like a recipe for the next seven minutes of live radio, it is. |
1:35.6 | Catherine Rampel is at the Washington Post. |
1:37.6 | Courtney Brown is at Axios. |
1:39.0 | How you two? |
1:40.2 | Hey, car. |
1:40.7 | Hey, Guy. |
1:41.4 | Catherine Rampel, let me start with you, And we will start with the data out this morning, PCE, the personal consumption expenditures index, 2.1%, the headline year over year, 2.5%, the core minus food and energy. |
1:53.9 | Would I be overstating things if I said, this may be the last really nice reading on inflation we're likely to have, do you think? |
2:02.5 | It may well be, you know. Look, if I knew what the future brought, I would obviously be a much richer |
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