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MTV focuses on millennials for success
Jun 18, 2013
CEO of MTV Stephen Friedman says its success depends on their ability to connect with Millennials
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Doctors look to change the economics of obesity
Jun 18, 2013
The American Medical Association votes to classify obesity as a disease in a move that will broaden coverage for related treatments.
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Jay-Z and Samsung: Not a businessman, a business, man
Jun 18, 2013
What Jay-Z's deal with Samsung says about the future of music distribution.
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Court says deals to protect drug patents can be challenged
Jun 17, 2013
Makers of patented drugs sometimes pay generic drug makers not to copy their drugs when they go off patent, allowing them to keep charging high prices. The U.S. Supreme Court says the FTC can challenge such deals.
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American Airlines legroom: How much is an inch worth?
Jun 17, 2013
American Airlines plans to make coach seats thinner and adjust the amount of legroom in some seats.
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Man of Steel: It's a bird, it's a plane...no, it's Jesus?
Jun 17, 2013
You could say 'Man of Steel' had a super weekend. That’s thanks in part to some niche marketing. Warner Bros. Studios targeted Christian moviegoers.
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Setting up a marijuana market in Washington from scratch
Jun 17, 2013
As much as marijuana initiatives are an experiment in drug legalization, they are also a business experiment. How do you set up an entirely new commercial marketplace worth billions?
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Do rising rates mean an improving economy?
Jun 14, 2013
The ten-year T-note is above two percent, but some are concerned this might mean the end of quantitative easing in the near future.
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Who owns the happy birthday song?
Jun 14, 2013
Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Nelson is challenging the copyright to the happy birthday song after being asked to pay $1,500 to Warner Music to use the tune in her film.
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Opportunity cost: A simple Whiteboard explainer
Jun 13, 2013
Economists love to use the term "opportunity cost." In fact, you've probably heard it before. But what is it exactly? Senior producer and Whiteboard expert Paddy Hirsch explains.
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Got a topic for our next Whiteboard video? Submit your ideas!
Aug 28, 2012
Help us break down complex financial topics into easy-to-understand analogies. Post a comment suggesting the topic of our next Whiteboard video and you could win a signed copy of Paddy Hirsch's new book "Man vs. Markets"
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A conference room by any other name...
May 8, 2013
The naming of the conference room can be a very important thing. And now, you can name Marketplace's two main meeting rooms.
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Who should pay for public radio?
Apr 17, 2012
How do you think public media should be funded? Commentator Tucker Carlson says cut federal funding and let the listeners pitch in.
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Ending 19 years of Week on Wall Street
Aug 29, 2008
In his final appearance on our regular Friday segment, stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson reflects with host Kai Ryssdal on his 19 years of watching the markets.
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Auto union drove GM to trouble
Mar 30, 2009
The Obama administration's force out of GM CEO Rick Wagoner is supposed to help the automaker survive. But commentator Kevin Hassett says for the automaker to thrive, Wagoner's not the only one who should go.
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New office crisis: Boomers won't leave!
Mar 24, 2009
Many baby boomers who were planning to retire soon will have to hold off, due to the plummeting values of their retirement funds. Commentator Dan Drezner says this may make things worse for Generation X in the office.
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No representation without taxation
Mar 13, 2009
The earned-income tax credit is designed to give a break to low-income workers. But commentator Amity Shlaes says these days the poor may be paying too few taxes and the rich may have too big of a burden, which is not helping economic recovery.
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Volkswagen releases the Bulli van concept vehicle
Mar 1, 2011
The 81st Gevena International Motor Show kicks off this week, and motorheads are already buzzing about big news from Volkswagen. The New York Tim...
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On the flip side...
Oct 15, 2009
Sticking with the housing market, here's the story of a young first-time home buyer. And I mean young. She bought a foreclosed home about a month...
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Why home ownership is U.S. obsession
Mar 26, 2009
Kai Ryssdal speaks with Columbia Professor Edmund Phelps about the reason why so many Americans want to own their own homes.
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America's next top model? You
Jun 7, 2013
Brands are trying to "get real" by soliciting and posting pictures of customers in their ads.
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Cell phone theft is on the rise, but the industry isn't helping much (Infographic)
May 13, 2013
Cell phone theft in this country is on the rise – some are calling it an epidemic – but there’s not really any incentive for the industry to help curb the increase.
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Think good beer only comes in bottles? Can it.
Oct 12, 2012
The explosion in craft brewing has meant a huge increase in the number of small breweries who ship their beers in cans.
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U.S. unemployment picture at a glance: August, 2011
Sep 2, 2011
The U.S. job situation in August is a carbon copy of July (which was revised today to 85,000 new jobs instead of the previously reported 117,000)...
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MTV focuses on millennials for success
Jun 18, 2013
CEO of MTV Stephen Friedman says its success depends on their ability to connect with Millennials
0
Jay-Z and Samsung: Not a businessman, a business, man
Jun 18, 2013
What Jay-Z's deal with Samsung says about the future of music distribution.
1
Doctors look to change the economics of obesity
Jun 18, 2013
The American Medical Association votes to classify obesity as a disease in a move that will broaden coverage for related treatments.
0
Court says deals to protect drug patents can be challenged
Jun 17, 2013
Makers of patented drugs sometimes pay generic drug makers not to copy their drugs when they go off patent, allowing them to keep charging high prices. The U.S. Supreme Court says the FTC can challenge such deals.
5
American Airlines legroom: How much is an inch worth?
Jun 17, 2013
American Airlines plans to make coach seats thinner and adjust the amount of legroom in some seats.
0
Man of Steel: It's a bird, it's a plane...no, it's Jesus?
Jun 17, 2013
You could say 'Man of Steel' had a super weekend. That’s thanks in part to some niche marketing. Warner Bros. Studios targeted Christian moviegoers.
0
Setting up a marijuana market in Washington from scratch
Jun 17, 2013
As much as marijuana initiatives are an experiment in drug legalization, they are also a business experiment. How do you set up an entirely new commercial marketplace worth billions?
1
Do rising rates mean an improving economy?
Jun 14, 2013
The ten-year T-note is above two percent, but some are concerned this might mean the end of quantitative easing in the near future.
1
Who owns the happy birthday song?
Jun 14, 2013
Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Nelson is challenging the copyright to the happy birthday song after being asked to pay $1,500 to Warner Music to use the tune in her film.
0
Opportunity cost: A simple Whiteboard explainer
Jun 13, 2013
Economists love to use the term "opportunity cost." In fact, you've probably heard it before. But what is it exactly? Senior producer and Whiteboard expert Paddy Hirsch explains.
