Long-term bond yields hit a long-term high

Segments From This Episode

• Yields on the 30-year bond hit reach a quarter-century high

  by Kai Ryssdal

  "Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal talks with Geg Ip at the Wall Street Journal about the signals that the bond market is trying to send about the economy.

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• Inflation cools for producers in July

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  Energy prices remain elevated, which affects costs of transportation, materials, and power.

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• How small business owners are dealing with rising costs

  by Stephanie Hughes

  

  Prices are up for consumers, and the stores where they are buying goods are seeing some cost increases, too.

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• Coal still behind natural gas, renewables in electricity production

  by Caitlin Tan

  

  Utilities see more upside in relatively cheap solar cells than expensive new coal-burning plants. That’s despite the Trump administration’s efforts to boost coal as a source of electricity.

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• How one restaurant is navigating Puerto Rico’s water crisis

  by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst

  

  Amid severe drought and water rationing, a restaurant tries to make do.

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• Free solar panels and home batteries? Ann Arbor's trying it out

  by Caleigh Wells

  

  Electricity is getting more expensive and less reliable. Local power, like solar panels and batteries, helps solve those problems, but they’re expensive. That’s why Ann Arbor, Michigan, is installing them on homes for free.

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