The oil-natural gas conundrum

Segments From This Episode

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  Oil production looks like it could be plateauing. Natural gas, not so much.

• Kai talks with Laura Veldkamp, an economics professor at Columbia Business School, about the new ISM data showing that the service industry is flatlining

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  The Trump administration is exploring the option to prevent smuggling to China.

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  “Basically, YKK is a company that is just in the business of keeping things together,” said journalist Joshua Hunt. “It's really rolled with the punches in terms of the various shapes that globalization has taken.”

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  Same-store sales for KFC and Pizza Hut declined in the last quarter. Sales at Taco Bell, its more budget-friendly brand, grew at a slower pace.

• Kimberly Rose Photography

  Kathryn Christie is the owner of She Fixed That LLC, a handyperson and carpentry business based in Morris County, New Jersey.

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The Team

• Kai Ryssdal Host
• Nancy Farghalli Executive Producer
• Maria Hollenhorst Producer II
• Andie Corban Producer I
• Sarah Leeson Producer I
• Sean McHenry Director & Associate Producer II
• Sofia Terenzio Associate Producer I
• Jordan Mangi Assistant Digital Producer
• Nicholas Guiang Assistant Producer