Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/08/world/brave-new-browser-sets-newspaper-publishers-edge
Summary: Marketplace explores the consequences Brave software’s ad blocking browser has on websites, specifically newspaper outlets that depends on ads for revenue.
Original Air Date: April 8, 2016
Length: 2 minutes 15 seconds
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/17/business/auto-show
Summary: At the 2016 Chicago Auto Show, the Marketplace team looks at the demand of the millennials and the response from the auto industry. Millennials are pragmatic and tech savvy. Toyota cannot sell its Scion brand and changes strategy to accommodate consumers that make up a third of the US auto market.
Original Air Date: February 19, 2016
Length: 4 minutes and 2 seconds
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/09/health-care/goverment-seeks-improve-paitient-access-records
Summary: Is providing access to medical records a regulatory burden or essential to streamlining healthcare? The Marketplace team looks at explicit and implicit costs of requesting medical information for both the patient and the healthcare provider.
Original Air Date: February 9, 2016
Length: 4 mins 8 seconds
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/03/25/world/after-years-making-occulus-rift-arrives
Summary: Oculus Rift headsets for virtual reality are now in the market! Facebook owns Oculus and will be looking to take to Oculus Rift to the mainstream market next. In this podcast, Marketplace discusses the prospects and challenges ahead for these pioneers in virtual reality economy.
Original Date Aired: March 18, 2016
Length: 1 minute 53 seconds
Link: http://http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/25/tech/can-you-encrypt-data-then-ive-got-job-you
Summary: With the growing threat of cyber security, individuals with expertise in security and encryption are in high demand from financial, health, automobile, and tech industries.
Original Air Date: February 25, 2016
Length: 3:55
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/29/world/grocey-chain-kroger-banks-innovation
Summary: Kroger, a supermarket giant, seeks to reach out to a younger generation of shoppers through the sales of fresh foods while using new technologies to create the perfect price.
Original Air Date: March 3, 2016
Length: 1 minute 23 seconds
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/11/tech/fido-and-his-fitbit-will-pet-wearables-take
Summary: Would you want to quantify your dog’s daily routine? The Marketplace team explores the young and growing market for pet activity trackers, and how that data could benefit pet owners.
Original date aired: February 18, 2016
Length: 4 minutes
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/09/447249562/episode-656-bubblelicious
Summary: In this podcast the Planet Money team investigates the possibility of a bubble in the technology industry in San Francisco. Billions of dollars are being acquired by these tech companies and their over confidence might be an indicator to a future bubble.
Original Air Date: October 9, 2015
Length: 14 mins
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/22/408834372/episode-626-this-is-the-end
Summary: The Planet Money team investigates the growing use of machines in all aspects of labor, and examines the potential benefits as well as threats it could pose to society.
Original Air Date: May 22, 2015
Length: 12 minutes 39 seconds
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/03/353300404/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing
Summary: Something strange is going on in the textbook market. The price has steeply increased over the past decade–and they’re only getting higher. There is a disconnect between the chooser (the professors) and the buyers (the students). Technically, the professor is the consumer, and they’re spending their students’ money. The podcast offers the opposite: high school textbooks, where costs are kept low because the books are paid for by the schools.
Original Air Date: October 3, 2014
Length: 14 minutes 56 seconds
Discussion Question/ Prompt: Propose a solution to the rising textbook price problem. (Example: a price ceiling? professor awareness of prices? incentives for lower prices?)
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