While Demand For Rice In Japan Is Down, Prices Are Going Up The Japanese are eating less rice. But prices are now so high that they are buying imported race, rather than the home-grown version. It's also a story of tariffs, subsidies and incentives. Stacey Vanek Smith
Ticketmaster Has Its Own Secret Scalping Program, Canadian Journalists Report The CBC and the Toronto Star has reported that the live-event box office behemoth recruits professional scalpers into a resale program, through which Ticketmaster benefits from double-dipping on fees. Anastasia Tsioulcas
Tech Giant Apple Spared Financial Pain In Latest Round Of Tariffs On China With the trade tensions on the rise again, Apple has a lot at stake, with its money-making iPhone assembled completely in China. So far, the tech darling has managed to navigate the dispute unscathed. Alina Selyukh
Canadian shoppers use Washington border towns for Prime orders Amazon customers and other mail-order patrons are turning small towns on the northern border into the P.O. box for Canada. Tom Banse
Soybean Farmers Worry About Tariffs' Impact The trade war between Washington and Beijing has dealt a big blow to American soybean farmers, who depend heavily on the Chinese market. Jim Zarroli
Tesla Is Under Investigation By The Justice Department Tesla says it handed over documents after CEO Elon Musk announced he would take Tesla private. Investigators might scrutinize the company's accounting practices and whether investors were misled. Sasha Ingber
Boeing Calls Back Retired Workers To Help Keep Up With Supply Chain Unfinished 737s are stacking up on the tarmac outside of a Boeing plant near Seattle as the supply chain struggles to keep up with demand. The company is calling back retired workers to help finish putting the planes together. David Schaper
To Raise Interest Rates Or To Leave Them Alone? The Federal Reserve Must Decide As the Federal Reserve considers whether or not to raise interest rates, they have a growing complication to factor in: raising interest rates doesn't seem to have the same effect on the economy that it used to. NPR Staff
China Sets Tariffs On $60 Billion In U.S. Goods, Retaliating Against U.S. Duties Hours after President Trump announced tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, Beijing responded with its own levies on $60 billion worth of U.S. products. Avie Schneider
Assessing The Potential Impacts Of Trump's New Round Of Tariffs On Chinese Imports Economist David Wessel of the Brookings Institution says that workers in certain industries — like those that depend on steel imports — are "definitely going to feel the pain" of the new tariffs.
