10/26/06
Marketplace PM for October 26, 2006
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This final note . . .
Guess what's coming? Health care coverage for all that's what — thanks to the health insurance industry.
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What affordable housing?
Commentator Moira Manion says that there's one thing standing in the way of affordable housing: Developers that only want to build multi-million-dollar houses for the middle-class.
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Arctic oil bonanza
As the ice melts, vast new oil reserves in the Arctic Ocean could become accessible and that has some residents of Hammerfest, Norway, believing their small fishing village could become the Houston of the North. Stephen Beard reports.
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Willing, not ready for flu outbreak
A Harvard University poll found that most Americans would stay home during a bird flu pandemic — and take a huge financial hit. Host Kai Ryssdal talks to professor Robert Blendon about the study.
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Working the vote
More and more companies are actively helping their employees register to vote — but they have more than just their civic duty in mind. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
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Housing market continues slide
New home prices fell by the greatest amount in 35 years in September. The news comes on the heels of plunging existing home prices yesterday. So what's the outlook for the economy? Depends who you ask, Ashley Milne-Tyte reports.
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Insider help nixing insider trading charges?
Government investigators are looking into allegations that the SEC went too easy on a probe of politically well-connected Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack. John Dimsdale reports.
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Coffee trademark dispute brewing
An anti-poverty group has launched a campaign to pressure Starbucks into signing a licensing deal with Ethiopia, but even some of the coffee giant's biggest critics are siding with the company. Jeff Tyler explains.
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