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NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about some strong economic reports released Friday. Despite the good news, there are increased concerns about heating oil supplies and prices as winter approaches.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the latest Conference Board study showing American workers can expect an average salary increase of 3.5 percent this year -- the same rate as last year.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about two new surveys on worker compensation that finds a jump in the number of American millionaires. The surveys also suggest merit-based pay isn't working for a lot of employers.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about a new federal anti-piracy program called Strategy Targeting Organized Piracy, or STOP. It's a coordinated effort against a wide range of piracy, including pirated compact discs and knockoff auto parts.

NPR's Noah Adams is talking to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the decision by giant pharmaceutical firm Merck to pull its popular arthritis drug Vioxx from the world market. New data has emerged that shows an increased risk of heart attack and stroke among users of the drug.

Weeks after the online health insurance marketplaces opened, people are struggling to buy coverage. Mississippi and Alaska are depending on the federal government for their sites, and they haven't managed to sign up many people. California and Oregon built their own exchanges, but even those sites are having problems.

Etsy — the company best known for selling handmade goods — is going public. The financial media is having a lot of fun with this IPO, even mocking it as "artisanal." But it's actually serious business. The company has grown steadily and is considered one of the more promising recent IPOs.

There are hundreds of thousands of people doing stuff to your Internet experience that you may think is the work of an algorithm. They're working from home doing tiny tasks computers can't quite do.

Among its questions, the committee is probing any conversations Kevin McCarthy had with former President Donald Trump on the day of the Capitol attack.

At the end of a year in which pop songs were a constant, provocative part of the national conversation, NPR Music critic Ann Powers sifts through the 100 most popular songs of the year to highlight 10 pure pop pleasures worth remembering.