Business

Why so-called boomerang CEOs are returning to their jobs

5:06am September 12, 2023

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to executive leadership expert Cindy Solomon about why CEOs of big companies are staying on the job longer — or why companies are asking them to return to the job.

If autoworkers strike, business up and down the supply chain will be affected

5:06am September 12, 2023

If members of the UAW strike, it will affect more than automakers. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeff Rightmer, professor of Global Supply Chain at Wayne State University in Detroit.

National

Google's antitrust showdown begins this week

5:12pm September 11, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a professor of antitrust law at Vanderbilt Law School, about the federal government's first major monopoly trial of the Big Tech era.

Business

Century-old High Point company announces it will downsize and transition

4:17pm September 11, 2023

by DJ Simmons

A High Point business that dates back to the late 1800s recently announced it's changing its business model and leaving its 18-acre facility.

Hostess Brands, best known for its Twinkies, is being bought by jelly-maker J.M. Smucker.

Twinkies are sold! J.M. Smucker scoops up Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion

12:41pm September 11, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

For Hostess, the deal with the peanut-butter-and-jelly conglomerate is a sweet win after not one, but two bankruptcies.

Autoworkers are the latest union members to fight for an eye-popping raise

5:57am September 11, 2023

Big union demands — bolstered by a tight labor market and frustration throughout the COVID pandemic — are paying off in some sectors with significant raises for workers.

The diamond industry, trying to lure new customers, turns to platonic relationships

5:10am September 11, 2023

With fewer weddings these days, the diamond industry is looking to build new markets. The latest is platonic gift giving between female friends.

Sports

NFL embraces legalized sports betting

4:49pm September 10, 2023

The National Football League is kicking off a new season. And it's embracing legalized sports betting like never before.

Economy

Why the McFlurry machines at McDonald's are always broken

8:36am September 10, 2023

by Brittany Cronin

How McFlurry machines got caught up in a battle between copyright law and a growing repair-it-yourself movement.

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Economy

Economists challenge maxim: For inflation to go down, unemployment needs to go up

12:26pm September 09, 2023

by Willa Rubin

An economic rule of thumb has been that lowering the inflation rate leads to higher unemployment. But that has been weakening lately. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on September 6, 2023.)

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