May 18, 2016

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A still from Google's demo video for Google Home. Screenshot via Google

An art heist, displaced oil workers and Google's new Amazon Echo competitor.

Segments From this episode

Oil bust forces Texas H-1B visa holders to exit country

by Marketplace Contributor

May 18, 2016

As layoffs continue, foreign-born oil workers have little choice but to go home.

Workers construct new sidewalks in the Permian Basin oil field on January 21, 2016 in the oil town of Midland, Texas.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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We finally know how much U.S. debt is owned by Saudi Arabia

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

May 18, 2016

The answer to a question you didn't even know you had.

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Tracking down Warhol's stolen 'Campbell's Soup' prints

by Marketplace Contributor

May 18, 2016

Authorities know one thing: There was no mastermind behind the Missouri art museum theft.

A spectator walks past Andy Warhol's "Campbells Soup Cans" at the 2002 Warhol retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.

Photo by Sion Touhig/Getty Images

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Why some refugees go back

by Jim Muir

May 18, 2016

Hundreds of thousands have fled countries like Syria and Iraq. But some find Europe is far from what they'd hoped for.

Iraqi women at the Khazair displacement camp on June 30, 2014 in Khazair, Iraq.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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Google wants to get into your home — again

by Kai Ryssdal

May 18, 2016

The company unveiled Google Home to compete with Amazon's Echo.

A still from Google's demo video for Google Home.

Screenshot via Google

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How tariffs on Chinese imports affect the U.S. steel industry

by Kai Ryssdal

May 18, 2016

Kai Ryssdal checks in with Delaware Steel in Pennsylvania.

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Final Note

When a $2 million pay cut is a symbolic blow

by Kai Ryssdal

May 18, 2016

Good thing Sumner Redstone is worth $5 billion.

Sumner Redstone in a 2013 photo. Viacom's board voted Wednesday to stop paying his salary.

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An art heist, displaced oil workers and Google’s new Amazon Echo competitor.

Music from the episode

Get By Talib Kweli

Sunday! 9th Wonder, Keisha Shontelle, Chaundon

The Way I Are Timbaland, Keri Hilson, D.O.E.

Black Sun Death Cab for Cutie

The Message (feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee) Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Duke Bootee

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