{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Tech","slug":"marketplace-tech-318132","podcast_index_feed_id":318132,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-tech","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/af5db80cfdc39c7440ad974f15e6e23fe14d9f5c/square/834af0-20250303-marketplace-tech-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":150,"summary":"Monday through Friday, Marketplace demystifies the digital economy in less than 10 minutes. We look past the hype and ask tough questions about an industry that's constantly changing.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-24T20:22:45.892637+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132"},"episode":{"title":"Why the Trump administration plans to boost funding for subsea cables","slug":"why-the-trump-administration-plans-to-boost-funding-for-subsea-cables","published_at":"2026-08-20T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/why-the-trump-administration-plans-to-boost-funding-for-subsea-cables","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/08/20/why-the-trump-administration-plans-to-boost-funding-for-subsea-cables","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/tracking.swap.fm/track/VnCzW2iO9G8z4eDWfXCd/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/tech_report/2026/08/20/tech_20260820_TECH_pod_128.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MKPtech&awEpisodeId=01M00NSKYASFDZ38CG1K267159","summary":"Most of the world’s internet traffic flows through underwater cables on the ocean floor. The wires are also responsible for some $10 trillion worth of financial transactions every day. And because those cables hold so much data and carry so much money, they’re also a potential security threat. That may explain why the U.S. and China are vying for control over the technology — and why the Trump administration is ramping up spending to replace cables in the Caribbean and Central America. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Erin Murphy, the managing director for Asia at Redpoint Advisors, about why these cables play a key role in geopolitics. More on this: US is considering big boost to anti-China spending globally from The Associated Press Risk Beneath the Waves: Safeguarding Subsea Cables for a Secure Global Network from CSIS","meta_description":"Most of the world’s internet traffic flows through underwater cables on the ocean floor. The wires are also responsible for some $10 trillion worth of fin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":587,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-tech-318132/episodes/why-the-trump-administration-plans-to-boost-funding-for-subsea-cables/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-tech-318132/why-the-trump-administration-plans-to-boost-funding-for-subsea-cables.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}