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As Hurricane Francine brings floodwaters, are homeowners in its path covered?

Sep 13, 2024
Nationwide, only 6% of homeowners have flood insurance. Also: a look at the Boeing strike.
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Boeing workers vote to strike

Sep 13, 2024
From the BBC World Service: Boeing factory workers have voted to strike, threatening aircraft deliveries.
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Bytes: Week in Review — Google on trial, underwater data centers and how AI spurred a celebrity endorsement

Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joins Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino for "Tech Bytes: Week in Review."
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What’s your financial GPA?

Sep 13, 2024
Learn what you’re graded on when it comes to your credit score and why it’s important.
Mallory Brangan

One giant leap for private SpaceX-ploration

Sep 12, 2024
Hypothetically, how much would you pay to go to space?
TOPSHOT - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule, carrying the crew of the Polaris Dawn Mission, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 10, 2024. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
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This is the sound of an inverted yield curve

Sep 12, 2024
The so-called yield curve that tracks U.S. Treasury debt has been inverted for 20 months. Plus, credit card trouble and a chocolatier check-in.
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Hired, fired, can’t retire (updated rerun)

Rebecca Danigelis put all her earnings into her kids' education. But as one son's career took off, hers started to crumble.
Sian-Pierre Regis and his mother, Rebecca Danigelis.
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Unionized Boeing workers could strike tonight

Sep 12, 2024
The union representing 33,000 of Boeing's workers appears ready to reject a tentative deal reached over the weekend.
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Land seizures and land sales

Sep 12, 2024
Some synagogues in the U.S. and Canada are being criticized for hosting real-estate fairs that pitch property sales in Israel and the Occupied Territories to North American Jews.
A Palestinian neighborhood is seen from the window of a building inside an Israeli settlement in Hebron in January 2017.
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Do video games mislead players when it comes to in-game spending?

Sep 12, 2024
From the BBC World Service: Meanwhile, gaming companies say they always respect consumer laws
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