04/27/12
Marketplace for Friday, April 27, 2012
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Host Kai Ryssdal talks to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about the country's economic recovery, the European debt crisis, the legacy of his tenure in the White House and more. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is targeting for-profit schools that falsely market to veterans. Commentator Rex Huppke offers up a few solutions to drive down gas prices. And we meet a rickshaw driver in India and hear how globalization has changed his work.
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