05/09/05
Marketplace AM for May 9, 2005
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"The Sloan Sessions": Junkyard dogs
GM and Ford's credit ratings are both listed as "junk status" now by Standard & Poor's. In this edition of The Sloan Sessions, host Kai Ryssdal talks to Newsweek's Wall Street editor Allan Sloan about what it means for the automakers and the challenges they face as they try to break free of the financial junkyard.
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Guns for jobs, in Israel
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas isn't taking guns away from militants, but he's offering an attractive incentive for them to put them down: jobs. From Ramallah, Nancy Updike reports.
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