This episode of Marketplace explores the rising cost of diesel and its ripple effects on the economy, a hardware store owner's resilient comeback after a fire, corporate restructuring at Uber, urban housing policy reforms in Denver, the socioeconomic roots of loneliness, and the cultural
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