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(U.S. Edition) The Trump administration is rolling out new rules that will allow more people to purchase health insurance that doesn’t meet ACA requirements, meaning some of those plans won’t cover pre-existing conditions. Meanwhile, we look into how women make 80 cents for every dollar made by men, and how this kind of gap follows them into retirement. Then we head to education, where University of Chicago professor Cathy Cohen’s GenForward survey examined how millennials looked at public education. Today's show is sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com), Navy Federal Credit Union (navyfederal.org) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/23/2018)

(Global Edition) From the BBC World Service … As Saudi Arabia’s investment conference opens Tuesday in Riyadh, Turkey’s president demanded answers about the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. We hear from an economist who is attending the conference. Then, in the U.K., thousands of women are expected to show up for a strike protesting the lack of progress in equal pay cases in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Today's show is sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com), Navy Federal Credit Union (navyfederal.org) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/23/2018)

The midterm elections are here. Early voting is already happening in some places. We’re spending the rest of the week on election security and technology, starting with voting machines. Candice Hoke, founding co-director of the Center for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, believes insecure voting machines are the biggest security threat to the midterm elections. Hoke says that voting infrastructure should be regulated and funded like a public utility. (10/23/18)

Midterm elections are just a couple weeks away, and record donations are flowing to congressional candidates. All told, we're looking at $5 billion this year, up from 2016's congressional races and President Barack Obama's first midterms in 2010. One reason? Billionaires are lavishing more of their cash on politicians. Then, FICO scores are getting a makeover, and that could mean a boost for your credit. Plus, recreational marijuana has been legal in California for less than a year, and the industry's already seeing a tech disruption. We'll take you inside the emerging pot-on-demand business.

(Markets Edition) A fund from the United Nations has announced how it’s going to spend money to combat climate change, and those efforts include efficient European cities and harvesting geothermal energy in Indonesia. We also check in with Julia Coronado as the euro has experienced another decline as of Monday morning. Then we head out to Flagstaff, Arizona and the campus of Northern Arizona University. The school has doubled the number of students and its growth isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Today's show has been sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com), Michigan Economic Development Corporation (planetm.com) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/22/2018)

(U.S. Edition) With Saudi officials now saying that journalist Jamal Khashoggi did indeed perish at the Saudi consulate in Turkey, the kingdom's move to diversify its economy away from oil could be hindered, as foreign investors are rethinking their ties to the state. Meanwhile, there's more gloomy news from the toy industry as Hasbro has experiences a 12 percent drop in revenue in a year. What could be coming for toy retail in the future? Then we take a deeper dive into the ethics of artificial intelligence with John Havens of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which has developed a new ethics certification process for AI. Today's show has been sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com), Michigan Economic Development Corporation (planetm.com) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/22/2018)

(Global Edition) From the BBC World Service … After avoiding a debt downgrade to junk from Moody’s investor service, Italy is expected to get a request for changes to its submitted budget from the European Union – a first from the bloc. Then, it’s October, which means its  Christmas bonus time in Venezuela. Despite inflation that could hit 1 million percent this year, the government is doling out bonuses over the next few month, and they’ll be pegged to the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro.  Afterwards, we pay a lot of attention to hard facts and figures to measure successes of global economies. But what if happiness and wellbeing were factored in to the final statistics? We hear from the leader of one charity working with governments and businesses to make that a reality. GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com), Michigan Economic Development Corporation (planetm.com) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/22/2018)

The Energy Information Administration says the U.S. got about 11 percent of its energy from renewable sources last year. Climate scientists say that's going to have to go up a lot to ward off the worst effects of climate change. The Department of Energy says the U.S. is one of the fastest growing markets for wind power in the world, but that's mostly been on land. Eric Loth, at the University of Virginia, is an engineer who's part of a team building the next generation of offshore wind turbines, inspired by a palm tree. (10/22/18)

China’s economic growth hit a 10-year low in the third quarter, the lowest since the financial crisis. Consumers are showing signs of consuming less. We'll look at what that means for the economy at large. Plus, we hear from an Irish farmer at the Northern Ireland border about how Brexit affects him. Then we'll tell you everything you need to know about Facebook's scandal involving a pivot to video. But first, we'll recap the rest of the week's business and economic news.

(Markets Edition) The markets have been active to say the least in the past week, despite steady earnings from companies. Part of the activity can be attributed to the Federal Reserve thinking about raising interest rates. Chris Low of FTN Financial helps us dive in a little more. Later on Friday, we're expected to see home sales data for September, which might indicate rising interest rates. That would not be good news for the mortgage industry, as Marketplace's Andy Uhler reports. Finally, we zoom out to take in a picture of the global economy as painted by The Economist magazine's annual report. It's not a pretty one, as Economist editor Henry Curr told us on Friday. Today's show is sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/19/2018)

(U.S. Edition) The Chinese economy is on its slowest growth spurt since 2009. This is happening in the context of the ongoing trade feud with the United States, and Marketplace's Jennifer Pak checked in to tell us more. Meanwhile, Facebook is the target of a lawsuit, with advertisers accusing the social media giant of misrepresenting the amount of time users spent watching videos. Those numbers led to news organizations into believing video was where ad money could be found and altering their business models as a result. Then we turn to the opioid crisis and painkillers. With a quarter of pain patients misusing their prescribed pain meds, a Nashville startup has become a sort of watchdog for health care insurers, which pay out an extra $10,000 to $20,000 when someone is abusing painkillers. Today's show is sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/19/2018)

(Global Edition) From the BBC World Service ... China’s economic growth slowed to its lowest level since the depths of the financial crisis. But is it weak fundamentals or the ongoing trade dispute with the U.S. that’s hitting growth the most? Then, ahead of the midterms, there’s growing skepticism of social media and its role in reaching voters. But in Brazil, just nine days before a runoff presidential election, the frontrunner and his followers are embracing social platforms. Afterwards, in Indonesia, one entrepreneur is helping a new generation of street vendors embrace technology. Today's show is sponsored by GAIN Capital Group (gaincapital.com) and PayPal (paypal.com). (10/19/2018)

The United Nations released a major climate change report last week that said we have to cut emissions even more than we previously thought to avoid catastrophe from global warming. And we have to do it more quickly. Those who doubt that humans can cut emissions enough might point to engineering solutions like carbon capture to take carbon pollution out of the air and store it. But is new technology, on its own, a real fix? Marketplace’s Jed Kim talks with Scott Waldman, a climate change reporter for E&E News. (10/19/18)

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the budget deficit. At last count, it's up 17 percent over last year — the government spent $779 billion more than it collected in taxes. Seems we're paying the price for one of the biggest tax cuts in history. But wasn't that cut supposed to pay for itself? Then: African-Americans are more scared of a recession than white Americans, according to the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll. We'll look at how communities of color are still recovering from the last recession. Plus, the big business of disaster cleanup.