Marketplace All-in-One - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Kai and company make daily economic news understandable and easy to digest. They do some in-depth reporting on how changes in economy impact people affected by it. Love the show keep doing a great job

A brilliant story on water issues that artfully combines down-to-earth personal experience, science, history, and economics both local and national. A tour de force. Waiting for more.

I have been listening daily for years, love how informative it can be. In the past 18 months a noticeable and noted agenda has crept in in either people or topics the hosts personally disagree with that is counter to the mission of unpacking information, making it accessible to all and allowing the listener to interpret the impact.

Recent examples are like Space-X, where Kimberly could not separate the news and information from her personal opinion about Elon Musk (even though it is not Elon running the company, and there are thousands of engineers, scientists and workers that put their efforts into it) and even commentated saying she had unfavorable thoughts celebrating the rocket explosion and saying effectively “that is what you get”. This does nothing to inform listeners, only acts to dog whistle to like minded, or alienate those that are not. Whether they agree or not with a single individual or Their tweets, should be separated from the company and it’s actions/effects.

Like it or not, space x is doing more to revolutionize aerospace exploration than has happened in decades. Tesla is responsible for putting more EV’s on the road than all other companies and forcing sticker and the industry to evolve. This is a huge benefit for climate future. Yet there is a noticeable bent Austin’s the company through comments and coverage to discredit the achievements do to the dislike of the individual owning the company. He may be unliked because of his words or tweets, but there are large company CEO’s that get DUI’s, assault charges, embezzling or fraud that get less bad coverage from the show. Cover the companies, not the personalities please!!!

Separately, we don’t do enough to cover economic impacts of policy change. Example - The Secure 2.0 act is something that should be being covered often as retirement plans are the largest source of retirement for most Americans (other than their home ownership) and the changes have a huge impact to these plans. It was not applied equally and non profits/government workers are those getting left behind the most because the legislation does not fully apply to them

My favorite podcast; I listen every day. Make Me Smart was just the right mix of info and entertainment to get me through the pandemic. Kai and Molly had good on air chemistry and she will be missed. The family knows not to bother me while I’m making dinner if they hear Kai on the radio.

I’ve listened to Marketplace for some time, sporadically on the radio, then a few podcasts, and then this All-In-One feed. I’ve made donations, including automatic monthly ones. But the intensification of the ads lately, culminating with the no-transition mid roll ads on Tech featuring one of Marketplace’s reporters reading copy that repeats “that is a fact” has made me less inclined to listen.