How a cookie has become symbolic of Lebanon’s crumbling economy

<p class="p1">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.</p> <p>Donations from listeners power our nonprofit news. Your gift will support the journalism that keeps you and thousands of others informed every day. Become a Marketplace Investor: <a href="https://support.marketplace.org/mkp-mmr-sn">marketplace.org/givemorning</a></p>