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Jesson Duller

Jesson Duller

Audio Engineer

Jesson is an audio engineer at Marketplace.

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  • Increasing vaccine access around the world "is clearly the No. 1 policy priority," says Malhar Nabar of the IMF. "That's the only way we're going to really beat back this pandemic."
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    Also today: We also discuss a potential breakthrough in the tortuous negotiations among Democrats and the White House over President Biden’s domestic spending agenda.

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  • Fresh data from Spain shows inflation in October rose at its fastest pace in 29 years, compared with October 2020.
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    From the BBC World Service: The European Central Bank’s meeting today is under the spotlight as inflation continues to skyrocket across parts of Europe. Plus, police in Brazil have uncovered a criminal operation to remove nearly a metric ton of gold each year from protected indigenous lands in the Amazon. And, we hear from an experiment on the English coastline to use a sand barrier to protect a gas terminal against sea erosion.

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  • Many find better hours and benefits away from the high-octane atmosphere of the restaurant kitchen.
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    Also today: Lindsey Piegza joins us to discuss how there’s been a drop in the buying of durable goods such as factory machines and home washers and dryers. Appliances are actually becoming harder to get for home builders. Google’s parent company Alphabet is having a good year. It just reported its third straight quarter of record profit. 

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  • The pandemic has led to a record number of people deciding to leave their jobs.
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    Also today: The Democrats are adding a corporate minimum tax in an attempt to help pay for President Biden’s social spending plan.

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  • Britain's finance minister, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will present the government's budget and spending review on Wednesday.
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    From the BBC World Service: U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak will unveil London’s latest spending priorities today, with details already trickling out including plans for a higher national living wage, new spending on public transport projects and money to tackle backlogs in the National Health Service. Plus, as Russia threatens to suspend gas exports to Moldova, is Moscow using energy as a political weapon?

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  • Long-term bonds would help the Treasury borrow while locking in the current low interest rates.
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    Also today: A working paper from researchers at USC and UCLA found that the vaccine-averse aren’t receptive to financial incentives to get vaccinated. In some cases, it might have the opposite effect. Marketplace’s Jennifer Pak drops in to share some details about Goldman Sachs establishing a deeper foothold in China. 

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  • Union votes at Bessemer, Alabama's, Amazon facility were set to be counted on March 29.
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    Also, Tesla has now become a trillion-dollar company after rental car company Hertz ordered up 100,000 Teslas to add to its fleet.

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  • The Treasury Secretary previously pledged greater U.S. co-operation with international partners, including China, than under the Trump administration.
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    From the BBC World Service: Janet Yellen had a “frank” conversation about economics and trade with China’s Vice Premier Liu He, who laid bare Chinese concerns over U..S tariffs and treatment of Chinese companies. Plus, Australia – one of the world’s biggest fossil fuel exporters – pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. And, with international funds to Afghanistan frozen since the Taliban took over in August, we hear about crippling food shortages and other challenges facing people in the country.

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  • Navajo Nation is currently expanding internet capacity at local government and community centers that function like libraries through E-Rate, a Federal Communications Commission program that helps schools and libraries access affordable broadband.
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    There’s a program called “E-Rate” that subsidizes broadband data connections for schools and libraries. But libraries on tribal lands were excluded. Also, we’ll get yet another wave of signs about where the economy is headed (and where it’s most recently been) from profit and revenue reports for companies like Apple, Ford and General Electric — as well as the latest calculation of U.S. economic growth for Q3. And, AMC movie theaters are rolling out open captioning for those with hearing loss.

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  • A new report from the New York Times delves into stock trades by a number of  lawmakers that may present a conflict of interest.
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    Democrats in Congress are looking for new ways to fund a spending plan for increasing social benefits and fighting climate change. In the face of opposition to raising the corporate tax rate, Democrats are pivoting to a plan that would require billionaires to pay taxes on the increased value of assets such as stocks on an annual basis, regardless of whether they sell those assets. Also today: We look at the argument for why businesses should be interested in a four-day workweek for their employees.

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