APM Weekly: September 4 – September 8, 2023

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • Kai talks to Adriana Samper, Associate Professor of Consumer Behavior and Marketing at Arizona State University, about trending ways to justify unnecessary spending.
  • Kai talks with Austan Goolsbee, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and voting member of the FOMC.

Marketplace Tech

  • Monday September 4: A few weeks after its launch, Germany’s financial regulator BaFin has launched an investigation into Worldcoin, the digital currency project co-founded by Sam Altman. Meanwhile, in Kenya, the government has ordered a halt to new user sign-ups for Worldcoin’s crypto project, citing data privacy fears. So what’s all the hype about? The BBC’s Leanna Byrne went to a scanning center in London to find out.
  • Tuesday September 5: Generative artificial intelligence is expected to change the workplace but how businesses and workers see it in the U.S. versus China is very different. Lily Jamali speaks with Marketplace’s China correspondent Jennifer Pak about her reporting on this.

On Point

  • Monday, September 4: When dozens of companies in the UK experimented with a four-day work week, employers and employees loved it. Most are sticking with it. In this rebroadcast episode, so that we at On Point can enjoy a four-day week, we ask could a routine four-day work week work in the US?
  • Tuesday, September 5: Even though the economy is doing better, few Americans say they’re better off financially this year than they were last year. We explore what’s behind the pessimism Americans have about their own financial lives.
  • Thursday, September 7: As Congress returns from summer recess one of their big priorities is to reauthorize the farm bill before September 30th – something they have to do every five years. We hear from a North Dakota rancher about why he thinks the farm bill has a “destructive impact on rural America” and from Rep. Earl Blumenauer. The Oregon Democrat has devoted 26 years to trying to improve the farm bill. He introduced his latest alternative, the Food and Farm Act, earlier this year.

Arts and Culture

Splendid Table

September 8 – New episode

We’re talking apples this week with Diane Flynt author of Wild, Tamed, Lost, revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South and then we turn to another local crop, mezcal with Gary Paul Nabhan and David Suro authors of Agave Spirits The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals.

Performance Today

  • A new performance of the Piano Quintet in C minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the most recent Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina
  • A recent performance of the Schubert Unfinished Symphony from Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langree
  • Orli Shaham and The Parker Quartet perform Ignaz Lachner’s arrangement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 17 in G Major from the University of Georgia
  • A performance of the Shostakovich sonata for cello and piano from Tippet Rise Music Festival by Sterling Elliott and Wynona Wang
  • Joyce Yang performs Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor with The Nashville Symphony, conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero
  • The world premiere performance of a new work by Wan Jie performed by the Apollo Chamber Players in Houston

APM Presents special of the week

Witness: The Labor Movement

Air Window: Now – September 30, 2023

A collection of stories related to strikes, campaigns and successes for workers rights around the world. Pulled from the BBC’s Witness History program, this specially-curated hour will bring first-hand accounts of significant moments in the labor movement from the US, UK and elsewhere.

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