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Sep 22, 2021

Are developed countries pulling their weight in the climate crisis?

Also on today’s program: the Fed plans how and when to taper bond-buying, and a new deodorant product is beset by supply chains setbacks.

All this talk about the Fed “tapering” bond-buying — what’s it to you?
by Sabri Ben-Achour
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Two words: interest rates. On stuff like mortgages. Business loans. Keeping them low keeps capital flowing in this pandemic economy.
How did disaster aid get tangled up in the fight over the debt ceiling?
by Kimberly Adams
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There are more disasters than Congress budgets for. And the federal fiscal year coincides with peak hurricane and wildfire season.
Supply chain, shipping and pricing woes: “This is how we learn to sail”
by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Courtesy Bite
Personal care products company Bite faced a lot of obstacles to launch its aluminum-packaged deodorant during the holiday shipping season.
Has Brexit boosted London’s financial center?
Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images
British financial services exports to the EU rose in the first few months after the U.K. left the bloc.
Need for climate finance front and center at U.N. General Assembly
by Samantha Fields
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Developed countries pledged $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poorer nations mitigate and adapt to climate change.