Let's import some inflation

Segments From This Episode

• Why the Treasury is buying back long-term bonds

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio

  "Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal discusses the Treasury Department's latest move with Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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• What happens when import prices skyrocket? More inflation, of course

  by Justin Ho

  

  Stripping out the cost of imported energy, imports are about 4.5% more expensive than at the same time last year.

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• For this customs broker, tariff whiplash is a "big strain to the supply chain."

  by Sean McHenry

  The deadline to impose 50% tariffs on some Canadian imports has been delayed. Gretchen Blough, customs brokerage manager at Logistics Plus in Erie, Penn., says the changes have lead "to a lot of frustration in planning for our customers."

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• The Numbers

  by Kai Ryssdal

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• U.S. oil companies ink production deals with Venezuela

  by Elizabeth Trovall

  

  Venezuela’s oil minister, Paula Henao, spoke to Venezuelan state television from Houston, Texas on Tuesday night to announce the investments.

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• Microdramas get the "Hollywood treatment" at this new studio

  by Kai Ryssdal and Sofia Terenzio

  

  Microdramas are already big business in China, but can they make it in the States? The founders of Knockout Shorts, a new Hollywood studio, think they can.

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