10/18/11
Marketplace for October 18, 2011
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Marketplace for October 18, 2011
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Goldman Sachs in the red
The investment bank reported only its second quarterly loss since going public in 1999. One factor is the volatility of stock markets, which is affecting experienced traders like Goldman as well as small investors.
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Small biz lending fund is a bust
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner went to Capitol Hill today to defend a $30 billion program to give community banks money to lend to small business. Only $4 billion made it out the door.
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From blog post to protest sign on Occupy Wall Street
The Atlantic magazine's Conor Friedersdorf talks about how his words from a blog post unexpectedly turned up on a sign in the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
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Freakonomics: Tackling the problem of cheating teachers
Freakonomics Radio's Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt discuss why teachers cheat and how we can deal with the problem.
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Amtrak ridership hits new heights
Although mostly because the economy has hit such lows.
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