High oil prices, big oil profits

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• Why did the U.S. just spend billions to prop up the Japanese yen?

  by Nova Safo

  

  The U.S. wants to prevent Japan selling more U.S. bonds to stabilize the yen, which would send yields higher and interest rates up for U.S. consumers.

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• What the bond market is trying to tell us

  by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban

  

  Nicole Cervi, economist at Wells Fargo, weighs in on the bond market, the Fed, and the job market.

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• How small- and medium-sized firms are navigating this labor market moment

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  The June job market data was pretty meh and July job creation is expected to tick up. So what’s that look like for smaller businesses?

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• Becoming a freelance court reporter helped this mom find herself

  by Maria Hollenhorst

  

  Freelance court reporting has helped Kathryn Gordon balance motherhood with financial independence.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• High oil prices lift all boats in the Permian Basin, but companies remain cautious

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  Oil companies that drill in West Texas are seeing big wartime profits, but many are holding back on aggressive capital spending, wary of repeating the boom-bust cycles that followed the pandemic when prices collapsed after a drilling surge.

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• Peaches pay the bills for Western Colorado farmers, but drought makes their future uncertain

  by Caroline Llanes

  

  One of Colorado’s most productive peach farmers is preparing for the possibility that irrigation water may be turned off before the harvest is finished.

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