Henry Epp
Reporter at Marketplace
Reporter @marketplace Past: @vermontpublic, @nepublicmedia Born and raised in Minneapolis
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3 days ago |
marketplace.org | Henry Epp
The NBA Finals start on Thursday, as the Oklahoma City Thunder take on the Indiana Pacers. It’s a meeting of two small-market teams. That’s not a great recipe for TV ratings, but there are some upsides for pro basketball. The fact that teams from two of the smaller media markets in the 30-team NBA made it to the Finals is largely thanks to the league’s salary cap. “The salary cap puts a limit on the amount teams can pay the players.
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1 week ago |
vermontpublic.org | Henry Epp
This story originally aired on “Marketplace” on May 22. Listen to Marketplace each weekday at 6:30 p.m.on Vermont Public. Pour one out for the craft brewing industry. What was once a booming market, adding breweries by the hundreds every year, has now stagnated. Last year, for the first time in two decades, more breweries closed than opened in the U.S and craft beer production fell by nearly 4%, according to the Brewers Association, an industry trade group.
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1 week ago |
marketplace.org | Henry Epp
Pour one out for the craft brewing industry. What was once a booming market, adding breweries by the hundreds every year, has now stagnated. Last year, for the first time in two decades, more breweries closed than opened in the U.S and craft beer production fell by nearly 4%, according to the Brewers Association, an industry trade group. That’s pushing surviving breweries to rethink their business models as they navigate a changing market.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Henry Epp
We talk a lot on this program about the yield on the 10-year T-note. That's the interest rate on U.S. government treasury bonds that investors hold for ten years. But a different bond has been in the news this week, and that's the 30-year Treasury note. Yields on 30-year bonds rose above 5% earlier this week and have stayed there. The longer an investor holds U.S. treasury bonds, typically, they’ll want a higher interest rate.
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2 weeks ago |
marketplace.org | Henry Epp
A project that would connect the Bay Area and Los Angeles by high-speed rail is still years away from completion and billions of dollars over budget. President Donald Trump’s recent threat to pull federal funding from the effort (and efforts in Texas too) could slow it down even more. But a private company thinks there’s another way to link the two cities by rail: slow-moving sleeper trains.
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