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The background on corporate taxes
Feb 22, 2012
The Obama administration could soon propose a lower, flat corporate tax rate. But how do corporate taxes really work?
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Obama proposes lower corporate tax rates
Feb 22, 2012
Obama’s plan would cut the top corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 35 percent but close many loopholes that let companies pay far less today.
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Magic Johnson, P. Diddy to run new cable channels
Feb 21, 2012
Magic Johnson will team up with Comcast to launch a new cable channel. It will feature positive stories from the African-American community. Sean Combs -- aka P. Diddy -- is also expected to formally announce a new music channel on Comcast.
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Walmart lures shoppers back -- at a price
Feb 21, 2012
Walmart boosted U.S. sales in the latest quarter, but shoppers were drawn to lower-priced products and that hit profit margins.
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L.L.Bean boots kicking up a lot of business lately
Feb 20, 2012
The classic boots from L.L. Bean become fashion statements for a new generation.
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Airlines pass higher fuel costs to passengers
Feb 20, 2012
Consumers are not only feeling the pinch of higher gas prices at the pump. They are also getting hit with higher plane tickets as airlines pass rising jet fuel costs to passengers.
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Foxconn reform may lead to more changes in China
Feb 20, 2012
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn is taking steps to improve worker salaries and conditions after increasing international pressure to do so.
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Murdoch to launch new tabloid in U.K.
Feb 20, 2012
Just seven months after another paper shuttered its doors in scandal, Rupert Murdoch is launching a new tabloid in Britain.
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Food giants feel the heat
Feb 17, 2012
High commodity prices put big food producers in a tough spot.
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Ford CEO Alan Mulally on the auto industry's progress
Feb 17, 2012
The president of Ford Motor Co. credits good investments as a reason for the company's ability to stay afloat during the recession.
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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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Taxing the Street
Nov 25, 2009
Perhaps you heard on the Marketplace Morning report this proposal to tax Wall Street transactions. The revenues would go toward deficit reduction...
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The Future
Mar 30, 2010
I have news, dear reader. Tomorrow will be the last day of the Scratch Pad blog and my last day at Marketplace....
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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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How H-1B workers affect U.S. jobs
Apr 1, 2009
There's been severe political backlash this year against highly-skilled foreign workers due in part to legislation surrounding the financial crisis. Renita Jablonski talks to Professor Robert Kennedy, who covers globalization in his new book.
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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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Kodak to drop its name from Hollywood theater
Feb 16, 2012
Eastman Kodak won a court battle to scrap its sponsorship of Kodak Theater, home of the Oscars. Do expensive naming rights jinxing companies?
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General Motors lags behind in Europe
Feb 16, 2012
For General Motors, the European debt crisis has just piled on the ongoing problem of too much supply, and not enough demand for their cars in Europe.
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Murdoch's newspaper empire threatened from within
Feb 16, 2012
Rupert Murdoch is expected in London today where he'll face some angry employees. Nine journalists from his U.K. tabloid The Sun have been arrested in the last few weeks after Murdoch's own company -- News Corporation -- turned them in for alleged corruption.
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U.S.-China trade relations could still go south
Feb 15, 2012
China's vice president Xi Jinping met with corporate leaders at U.S. Chamber of Commerce as part of his Washington trip. Each side has put on a smile about their economic relationship, but that hasn't hid the tensions beneath the surface.
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Wanna buy the Empire State Building? Really.
Feb 14, 2012
The owners of the Empire State Building, among other office towers, register to sell shares to the public.
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Key financial reform gets push back
Feb 14, 2012
The Volcker Rule aims to prevent banks from betting their own money. Banks and foreign governments say could hurt markets more than it helps.
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Product placement gets the red carpet treatment
Feb 13, 2012
The website Brandchannel's annual Product Placement Awards highlight brand cameos in the year's top films. And as Brandchannel's Abe Sauer says, the purpose of product placement isn't only about the cash.
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Guinness, Johnnie Walker owner sees rising profits
Feb 10, 2012
Diageo, the alcoholic drinks giant that owns brands like Guinness and Johnnie Walker, says that its profits rose 15 percent last year despite flat sales in beleaguered Europe.
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Protests against Apple in N.Y.C. call for 'ethical iPhone'
Feb 9, 2012
There's been a lot in the press lately about working conditions in Apple factories in China. Apparently, we're worried about it -- but only a little bit.
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Trial continues for accused Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford
Feb 8, 2012
The former CEO of the Stanford Financial Group is considered the biggest accused Ponzi schemer to be tried. One of the government’s key witnesses testifies this week.
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