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Marketplace Morning Report
In less than 10 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on all the news you missed overnight. Throughout the morning, Marketplace's David Brancaccio will bring you the latest business and economic stories you need to know to start your day. And before U.S. markets open, you'll get a global markets update...
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A conversation with Nobel laureate Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr is a professor at Northwestern University, who — along with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt — won the Nobel prize in economics earlier thi...

Greece decides on a 13-hour working day
From the BBC World Service: Greece's government is voting on a bill authorizing private sector employees to work up to 13 hours a day, if both employe...

Contractors hit hard by government shutdown
Paychecks are grinding to a halt for federal employees as the government shutdown enters its third week. A 2019 law entitles furloughed workers to bac...

An old-fashioned way of prepping businesses for cyberattacks
From the BBC World Service: Chief executives have been urged to plan for computer security breaches by going back to pen and paper. The U.K. governmen...

Nobel economics prize winners focus on tech, innovation
This morning, the winners of the Nobel Prize in economics — three professors whose work centers on technological innovation and what helps economies g...

China's global exports boom amid renewed U.S. trade war
From the BBC World Service: Trade tensions are flaring as Beijing responds to President Donald Trump’s threats to tack an additional 100% tariff on Ch...

How the government shutdown will affect federal workers
The slow-moving train wreck we've been watching unfold for a week, has indeed wrecked: the government officially shutdown at midnight. Hundreds of tho...

A sunscreen scandal heats up in Australia
From the BBC World Service: Eighteen sunscreen products have been pulled from shelves in Australia because of safety concerns; testing showed they did...

Woman pleads guilty in multi-billion-dollar bitcoin fraud
From the BBC World Service: A Chinese national in London has pleaded guilty to illegally acquiring and possessing bitcoin in what's thought to be the...