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TELL US: How do you talk yourself down from the financial ledge?
Stephen Hoffman Jan 11, 2012
On this week's show, Carl Richards, he's a certified financial planner and New York Times contributor, said that he often makes this suggestion to...
Michele Bachmann's economic views
Jan 27, 2012
The New Yorker's Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza explains how growing up impoverished shaped the financial thinking of the GOP presidential hopeful.
Apple becomes the most valuable publicly traded company -- for a few hours
Kai Ryssdal Sep 21, 2011
This final note on the way out. There was a brief rip in the economic space time continuum today. Don't know if you felt it.
Long about mid-day,...
Obama goes bigger on social media
John Moe Jun 20, 2011
The 2012 presidential election will be fought in the trenches of social media and the Obama re-election campaign is going big and hard already. The...
Obama launches re-election campaign with big Facebook push
John Moe Apr 4, 2011
I guess this is news although I think it's no surprise that a) Obama is running again and b) social media is right up front in his efforts. When...
MID-DAY UPDATE: stock exchange merger, Egypt, workers' union, and Civil War tourism
Katharine Crnko Feb 18, 2011
Now that the German and New York stock exchanges have tied the knot, it's time to discuss which entity is going to take a new name. Germans think...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Jobless claims, Suez Canal workers' strike, NYSE merger
Katharine Crnko Feb 10, 2011
The U.S. Labor Department this morning announced weekly jobless claims fell to 383,000, the lowest level in nearly three years....
MID-DAY UPDATE: January job numbers, German stock market, and banana wars
Katharine Crnko Feb 4, 2011
Big news from the U.S. Labor Department today. The unemployment rate is down to 9 percent -- the lowest it's been in almost two years. At the same...
Big business reacts to the health care overhaul...
Bill Radke Oct 4, 2010
This morning's Wall Street Journal reports, the big manufacturer 3M says it will stop offering some kinds of health insurance because of the...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Economic news bad. Stock prices good.
Bill Radke Jul 22, 2010
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Sales of previously occupied homes fell in June; new unemployment benefit plans rose. Yet at this writing, Wall Street's jumping. What d...
