Apr 8, 2013

Marketplace for Monday, April 8, 2013

There’s no question the recently departed Margaret Thatcher remade the U.K. economy during her tenure, but how much of the Thatcher Revolution remains today? Plus, despite what you may think of Thatcher, hating her made plenty of folks rich. A look at the healthy business of hating Thatcher. Turning to the skies, airlines scored their second-best performance rankings in 23 years last year. How did that happen with all the mergers?

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Final Note

Original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello dead at 70

by Kai Ryssdal

Apr 8, 2013

Annette Funicello was America's beach blanket sweetheart, and before that a Disney Mousketeer.

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Cass Sunstein on making government simpler, not smaller

by Kai Ryssdal

Apr 8, 2013

As head of the White House office that deals with government regulation under President Obama, Cass Sunstein pushed for fewer rules and lower costs. His new book lays out a path for simpler, if not smaller, government going forward.

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Bird flu scare in China: Bad news for KFC

by Rob Schmitz

Apr 8, 2013

As cases of a new strain of bird flu spread across the Shanghai region, fast food chains like KFC are taking a hit to their bottom line.

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Taking the sting out of tuition

by Gigi Douban

Apr 8, 2013

High-priced private colleges are offering students tuition breaks even when they don't need them.

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U.S. ambassadors tapped for their connections, cash-raising

by Shannon Mullen

Apr 8, 2013

Forty percent of politically appointed envoys are big campaign donors. And unlike career diplomats, they get posts in desirable destinations, like Europe and the Caribbean. Caroline Kennedy's potential appointment in Japan would have more challenges.

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Margaret Thatcher's legacy: Three things that changed for the U.K.

by Stephen Beard

Apr 8, 2013

There’s no question Margaret Thatcher wanted to remake the U.K. economy during her tenure, but did she succeed?

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Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?

by David Gura

Apr 8, 2013

A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.

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Disappearing Jobs

Technology takes a toll on toll collectors

by Marketplace Contributor

Apr 8, 2013

In this latest installment of our series on disappearing jobs: the miracle of electronic toll collection comes at a human cost.

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Mike Ullman named CEO of JC Penney after Ron Johnson ousted

by Kai Ryssdal

Apr 8, 2013

Mike Ullman has been named CEO of JC Penney after Ron Johnson was ousted.

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Margaret Thatcher's foes turned anger into big business, and a soundtrack for the '80s

by Stacey Vanek Smith

Apr 8, 2013

From punk rock to TV satires such as Spitting Image, many of those who set out to pillory Margaret Thatcher for her policies made a nice living doing so. Listen to the soundtrack that hate created.