Features By Doug Krizner
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Unemployment benefits clear Senate hurdle
The Senate today moved closer to restoring unemployment aid to millions who have been out of work for more than six months....
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Keeping your gig
With so many people losing jobs, what are you doing to hold onto yours? Marketplace has heard of folks being forced to take paid vacation days or...
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Devastating job losses
More than a half-million American workers lost jobs last month, the biggest drop in payrolls since late 1974. Economist Peter Morici emailed this...
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Going Down Under
Australian press reports job cuts at Macquarie Group, one of the country's biggest banks, may have topped 1000. If so, that'd be about 10 percent...
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Oil skids
Crude prices hit 4-year lows after Merrill Lynch predicted a drop to $25 a barrel. Bloomberg quotes Chip Hodge of MFC Global: "We've got the U.S,...
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Preventing foreclosure
Fed chair Bernanke wants more taxpayer money to prevent additional home foreclosures. Brian Blackstone reports for the Wall Street Journal:...
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Highland Fling
Dealbreaker is reporting that 2,800 heads will roll at Royal Bank of Scotland. This morning, Credit Suisse bid au revoir to 5,300 in investment...
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Fewer jobs, fewer buyers
Unemployment checks are now going to more Americans than any time in the last 26 years. Just this morning, AT&T, DuPont and Viacom announced...
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Paulson's new plan
The Treasury Department is apparently toying with an idea to drive down mortgage rates....
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Dubai Eight Months Later
You may remember last March when Marketplace broadcast its shows from Dubai. Back then a barrel of oil was around 110 dollars, and Dubai was the...
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