Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace Morning Report

The new "Be Kind, Rewind"

December 29, 2025

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🎙️ The Voices & The Context

  • The Format: This fast-paced news report format blends expert interviews, on-location reporting, and quirky economic tie-ins to unpack daily market signals and consumer trends in a digestible morning briefing. Crisp, journalistic delivery keeps listeners hooked on fiscal headlines and human-interest angles.
  • The Format: A structured news segment featuring host-led interviews and reporter dispatches.
  • The Key Players:
    • Host - Nova Safo: Standing in for David Brancaccio, she guides the show with smooth transitions between heavy policy talk and lighter stories.
    • Guest - Julia Coronado: Founder and president of Macro Policy Perspectives, plus professor at the University of Texas at Austin; renowned macroeconomist decoding Fed dynamics for investors and policymakers.
    • Reporters: Caroline Ballard delivers nostalgic consumer culture from Salt Lake City; Rebecca Drought covers historical finds with BBC flair.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 **(00:00) 🎙️ Introduction: Julia Coronado**
  • 2 **(01:10) Federal Reserve Minutes from Recent Meeting**
  • 3 **(03:53) Rise of Little Free Blockbuster Kiosks**
  • 4 **(07:46) Rare Ancient Coin Discovered in Scottish Wood**
  • 5 **(08:45) Marketplace Morning Report Close**

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Show Notes

Move over “Be Kind, Rewind.” The new slogan is “Take a Movie, Leave a Movie.” That’s right. A Blockbuster nostalgia trip could be coming to a yard near you. Today, we visit Salt Lake City, which just got its very first Free Blockbuster — like a lending library but for DVDs and VHS tapes. Also on today's show: divisions at the Federal Reserve and a coin buried for centuries in the Scottish woods.

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