The chip shortage could mess up your summer vacation - a podcast by Marketplace

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, there’s been something of a global chip-demic brewing. And like the pandemic, a semiconductor shortage has knock-on effects you might not expect — like not enough rental cars to go around. How will this affect the pent-up demand for post-vaccination travel this summer? We’ll talk about it. Plus: Berkshire Hathaway gets Y2K’d, the Fed talks about “meme stocks” and condors make a mess.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “Rental Companies Buy Up Used Cars as Chip Crisis Get Worse” from Bloomberg


• “The Chip Shortage Keeps Getting Worse. Why Can’t We Just Make More?” also from Bloomberg


• “Fed Says Covid Is Major Financial Risk, Asset Prices Vulnerable to ‘Significant Declines’” from The Wall Street Journal


• “Meme Stocks and Archegos: Fed Calls Out Financial Weak Spots” from The New York Times


• If you want to read the Fed’s Financial Stability Report yourself, here it is.


• Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price


• “Endangered California condors ‘absolutely trash’ woman’s house, won’t leave” from SFGate


• You can see more photos on Seana Lyn’s Twitter thread

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