08-11-15 - Marketplace - Call it an economic indicator
Marketplace | Aug 11, 2015
Call it the yuan, the renminbi, the people's currency ... or just call it an economic indicator. Plus, memoir of a pizza and what's next for Goo- er, Alphabet.
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America at 250: A View from Britain, with “The Rest Is History”
The historian-podcasters Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explain why losing the thirteen colonies “annoyed” the British, but “it could have been a lot worse.”
About 1 million rent-stabilized apartments will be shielded from rent increases for the next two years after the historic vote.
Gothamist |
Are Carriage Horses a Thing of the Past?
Liam Quigley talks about the latest efforts to ban carriage horses in Central Park.
The Brian Lehrer Show |
Feds indict former Mayor Adams adviser Frank Carone in migrant housing bribery scheme
One of former Mayor Eric Adams' oldest and closest allies was arrested Wednesday on federal corruption charges, joining a growing roster of Adams aides facing prosecution.