Nov 4, 2021

What does the failure of Zillow’s flipping business mean for other ibuyers?

Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Redfin

Also on the show today: Examining how relief funds can be more equitably given to tribal governments, and more than 20 countries pledge to cut fossil fuel investments.

Segments From this episode

California farmers say their crops are caught in the supply chain

by Caroline Champlin

Nov 4, 2021

Exports are delayed for key crops like walnuts, many of which are grown for overseas customers.

California farmers may have to sell crops domestically due to supply chain issues. Above, vehicles drive past farmland and a freight train near Pixley, California, in August.

Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

What the demise of Zillow Offers means for the ibuyer model

by Amy Scott

Nov 4, 2021

As Zillow winds down its home-flipping business, what's next for the industry?

Two Zillow Offers representatives evaluate a home for purchase in 2019. Zillow is winding down its house-flipping operation and, as of late September, has nearly 18,000 houses to unload.

Joe Raedle via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

COVID-19

How can the U.S. government better distribute funding to tribal governments?

by Savannah Maher

Nov 4, 2021

A Harvard policy paper out this week on the government's pandemic relief effort calls on the Treasury Department to create a dedicated tribal affairs office.

The U.S. Treasury was widely criticized for how it distributed COVID relief funds to tribal governments.

Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

A Warmer World

U.S., other countries cut funding for international fossil fuel projects

by Samantha Fields

Nov 4, 2021

Instead, they'll put about $18 billion a year into renewable energy projects.

On Thursday, more than 20 countries pledged to redirect investments from fossil fuels to clean energy. Above, signage inside the COP26 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

LISTEN

EMBED

"Champing," or camping in a church, is a new U.K. travel trend

by Stephen Beard

Nov 4, 2021

A British church conservation charity is renting out space among the pews for vacationers to bed down for the night.

St. Mary the Virgin Church, located in Edlesborough, England, is now a place for “champers.”

Courtesy of Joseph Casey

LISTEN

EMBED

No more money, please

From Marketplace’s “This Is Uncomfortable,” a woman begins to learn more about the sources of her family’s generational wealth — and wants to give it all away.

Listen Now

Music from the episode

Chromakey Dreamcoat Boards of Canada

What Happened? Gilligan Moss

Chamakay Blood Orange

Pineapple Blue Lab Beats, Moses Boyd, Nérija

Which Way To Paradise Poolside

Yin And Yang Uyama Hiroto

Guess Who's Back Scarface, JAY-Z, Beanie Sigel

The team

Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer

Maria Hollenhorst Producer II

Andie Corban Producer I

Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II

Richard Cunningham Associate Producer I

Dylan Miettinen Associate Digital Producer

Latest Episodes From Our Shows

Jun 12, 2024