Marketplace®

Daily business news and economic stories
Episode 158Mar 27, 2020

Reminder: the markets don’t care if you live or die

We’re steering straight into the dark place today.

Download
People pass the New York Stock Exchange on March 16, when trading was halted for the third time in a week.
People pass the New York Stock Exchange on March 16, when trading was halted for the third time in a week.
Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

Subscribe:

Markets are up for the third day in a row, even as weekly unemployment claims hit about 3.3 million, more than 10 times the previous week’s count. Plus this milestone: the U.S. notches the largest number of COVID-19 cases in the world. What gives? We’re steering straight into the dark place today.

But on the bright side, Kai’s 12-year-old just learned how to make bread, and you guys sent in some good names for this self-isolation period, like “World War Zoom,” “Pause for the Cause” and “The Day We Stopped Wearing Pants.” Find more and submit your own in our Facebook fan group.

The Team

Reminder: the markets don’t care if you live or die