How a cookie has become symbolic of Lebanon’s crumbling economy - a podcast by Marketplace

From the BBC World Service: As Lebanon struggles with triple-digit inflation and a sharply rising poverty rate, people making festive maamoul cookies are changing their recipes due to rising food prices. Also, a spike in U.S. inflation last month is rattling global markets. And, Brazil’s Parliament is asking why a contract offer from Pfizer to buy doses of its vaccine was ignored for two months.

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