Features By Scott Jagow
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RIP Blockbuster
In the real world, where companies are allowed to fail, a big one is about to go down. Not surprisingly, Blockbuster is pretty much toast. It's...
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Carrying too much baggage
The airlines' checked bag fees have done exactly what you'd expect them to do: Generate revenue and create problems. As we reported this morning,...
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Morning Reading
Top of the mornin' to ya. In honor of St. Patty's Day, I think we should start with Marketplace's own resident Irishman and his latest Whiteboard...
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It's okay, you can still gripe
It's become almost taboo to complain about your job, since you know, you're lucky to have one. That doesn't mean people who were unhappy at work...
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TARP fraud exposed
The TARP watchdog, Neil Barofsky, warned us a year ago that the $700 billion program was ripe for fraud: "History teaches us that an outlay of so...
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Cosmic rays and little green men
The Toyota acceleration fiasco is starting to remind me of alien abduction stories. Like tales of failing car parts, spaceship stories seem to...
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Morning Reading
Good morning. Where were regulators while Lehman was doing its accounting tricks? They were staring right at it. Plus, economists debate the...
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Finally, a bill
It took a long while, but Congress has a completed financial regulation bill on the table. It falls short of a few of the original proposals, but...
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Your economy, in brief
Can you sum up your experience with the recession in about 10 words or less? Give it a try. It's a good mental exercise....
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Happy Birthday.com
What did the year 1985 give us? Let's see -- the Miami Vice theme, New Coke and the marriage of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley. So perhaps it's...
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