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What's causing the steep rise in oil prices

Interview with

Nov 16, 2011

The price of oil is up 20 percent over the last month, with prices today topping $100 a barrel. Why?

Posted In: Oil, natural gas, speculative bubbles

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The Thing About Tulips

by

David Brancaccio

Oct 6, 2010

Overflowing Flowers, Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington. (David Brancaccio 2010)...

Posted In: david brancaccio, picture this, speculative bubbles, tulips

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Lot 354

The story of the implosion of America's housing market as told through the prism of a single spanish-style home in mid city Los Angeles: Lot 354. Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal tugs on a thread of the history of this quaint three-bedroom home, and what unravels is the story of the housing bubble and its messy burst.

Posted In: lot 354, housing market, speculative bubbles, real estate, foreclosures

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Journalism: Practiced. Excellent interview. Thank you.

Annapolis57 | May 17, 2013

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld's interview on Marketplace today was absolutely unbelievable. Really. Is one of his rules not to believe your own spin? I...

jgrothues | May 16, 2013

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Three life rules from Donald Rumsfeld

Ryssdal's interview with Rumsfeld was breathtakingly inappropriate. "Marketplace?" If Ryssdal wants to promote his obvious biases...

rcd43 | May 16, 2013

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How World Finance makes a killing lending on the installment (loan) plan

There is something fundamentally wrong with predatory lending businesses, whether they are pay day loans or installment contracts. The business...

entropyman | May 15, 2013