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Maximizing your Halloween candy haul
Stephen Dubner Nov 1, 2012
Freakonomics offers the hidden side to finding the best neighborhood near you to trick-or-treat.
Ghost hunters fuel year-round business
Stacey Vanek Smith Oct 31, 2012
Promoting the paranormal is turning into big business as reality ghost-hunting shows have consumers hungering for a paranormal experience of their own.
Super PACs aim to spook voters with Halloween ads
Rachael Marcus Nov 1, 2012
Negative ads with a Halloween twist hit the airwaves
Making a business out of making fangs
Jeremy Hobson Oct 31, 2012
Sebastiaan Van Houten, who works at a the Halloween Adventure store in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood talks about his job as a self-described "fang-smith" -- he crafts custom-made prosthetic fangs.
Is your Halloween costume racist?
Malachi Segers Oct 30, 2012
This is a free country, so you can dress up like anything you want for Halloween. But some costumes play on negative stereotypes.
The economics of ghost hunting
Stacey Vanek Smith Oct 26, 2012
People are spending real money to experience the paranormal.
Mid-day Extra: This year's most popular Halloween costumes
Nov 24, 2011
What were the most popular Halloween costumes this year around the U.S.?
San Francisco tops trick-or-treat rankings
Paddy Hirsch Oct 31, 2011
Zillow has released its list of the top 20 trick-or-treat destinations in the US.
Top of the charts: San Francisco. The city scored highest on w...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Shipping threats and TSA regulations
Katharine Crnko Nov 1, 2010
Following Friday's mail-bomb scare in London, shipping and cargo industries respond to the idea of new threats. How will these changes affect...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Sustainable jobs and cell phones
Katharine Crnko Oct 28, 2010
This week on Marketplace we'll be following sustainable jobs. Today, we learned about the fastest growing industry in the job field: biomedical...
