09/02/10
Marketplace for Thursday, September 2, 2010
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Marketplace for Thursday, September 2, 2010
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The business of estimating risk
Kai Ryssdal talks to Bill Keogh, senior vice president of catastrophe risk modeling firm EQECAT, about how the firm estimates damages.
2
Strawberry Shortcake's trendy new look
Strawberry Shortcake at 30 now sports a cute miniskirt and plays rock guitar. No more dowdy pinafore for her -- but reporter Sally Herships misses the Strawberry Shortcake of her childhood.
0
A lot of firing, not enough hiring
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says that the lack of hiring is the bigger problem in today's economy, more so than the number of layoffs.
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'The trillion dollar gap' in pension funds
Regardless of economic climate, government offices continue to pay pensions. But the Great Recession is making governments re-think future employee pensions and how to deal with the pensions they're currently doling out.
0
Hertz, Avis offer big bucks for Dollar Thrifty
The travel industry was hit hard by the recession. But rental car companies Hertz and Avis are putting up a fight for another rental company Dollar Thrifty.
1
Burger King going private, again
Burger King is going private for the second time in eight years. Being a private company may give time for the company to rejuvenate the brand, or the new investors can just borrow and not invest money into the company, like the last time.
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Banks must be able to fail, Bernanke says
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that there should be a process to allow banks, too big and otherwise, to fail. Critics are skeptic such an idea will actually happen.
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UPDATE: No oil in water after rig explosion
Marketplace's Eve Troeh gives an update about this morning's explosion on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast. No oily sheen on the waters, as previously reported by the Coast Guard, but the incident may hurt Louisiana's push for the White House to lift its Gulf deepwater drilling moratorium.
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