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Mar 18, 2025

A business reporter goes to the rodeo

Today: economic lessons from the people responsible for serving Texas-sized food portions to nearly 2.5 million rodeo attendees.

Feeding 2.5 million people over 3 weeks at Houston’s rodeo
by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
Alex Schroeder/Marketplace
From massive burgers to turkey legs, chocolate-covered strawberries and a half a pineapple stuffed with fried shrimp and Fruity Pebbles.
Introducing the new Vice Chair for Supervision
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
The Federal Reserve starts a two-day meeting on interest rates today. But that’s only part of the Fed’s job; it also works with other federal agencies to supervise banks. And now the Fed is poised to have a new chief bank regulator.