Sean McHenry

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Sean McHenry

The ‘on-again, off-again’ path for President Trump’s tariffs continues. On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that tariffs enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 were unconstitutional, throwing out the bulk of the tariffs enacted this year. Less then a day later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put a stay on the decision until written arguments could be reviewed.

1 week ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Sean McHenry

Leslie Morgenstein, president and chief content officer of Alloy Entertainment, is responsible for more than 900 hours of television, give or take. “We were very fortunate to be producing shows during, I would say, a golden era of TV,” said Morgenstein.

2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Sean McHenry

When Amanda-Jane Thomas and Shanita Nicholas were brainstorming a name for the business they wanted to start together, they got inspiration from a word they saw in the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” an art project-turned-book by video maker Jack Koenig. “‘Sonder’ is the realization that everyone around you is living a life that's as beautiful and complex as your own,” said Thomas.

3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Nancy Farghalli |Andie Corban |Sean McHenry

May 16, 2025Today, we’ll visit a college outside of Baltimore that offers retirees the benefits of campus life. Also: strong growth at a Michigan small business and low credit appetite among consumers. Segments From This EpisodeThis week, we're joined by Courtenay Brown at Axios and Rachel Siegal at The Washington Post to discuss inflation, tariff policy changes and the rest of the week’s economic news.

3 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kai Ryssdal |Sarah Leeson |Sean McHenry

May 12, 2025“What these factory owners are making is a point that, even with the tariff, it is still going to be drastically cheaper than when you’re buying from the brand directly,” said Caiwei Chen, a China reporter for MIT Technology Review. Despite the news on Monday of a temporary U.S.-China trade deal, the manufacturing world has already been shaken up from tariff uncertainty. Case in point, data out of Beijing at the end of April showed that both exports and manufacturing fell that month.