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Immigration reform worries E-Verify critics
Apr 10, 2013
The system continues to thwart some eligible workers at a time lawmakers mull expanding it.
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Maine lobster could get a marketing boost
Apr 10, 2013
The lobster industry in Maine has proposed higher fees in order to spend big bucks on advertising. Some lobstermen say that’s a waste of money, but others hope it will increase demand.
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Airbus CEO on coming to America, and what it takes to compete with Boeing
Apr 10, 2013
CEO of Airbus Fabrice Bregier joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to discuss their new assembly plant in Alabama and what's ahead for the company.
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The secret behind Bed Bath & Beyond earnings: Finding its niche
Apr 10, 2013
A preview of Bed Bath & Beyond's earnings: Housing uptick helps, and online competition lurks.
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JC Penney and what's behind (mark) ups and downs of clothing prices
Apr 9, 2013
Ron Johnson's ousting as CEO of JC Penney ends his bid to break retail's cycle of marking products up just to mark them down in sales. Shoppers rejected Johnson's strategy of keeping low prices instead of discounting.
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Is failure good or bad? How you define it can depend on where you live
Apr 9, 2013
The Washington perspective is that failure is failure. The West Coast thinks failure leads to innovation. What does that mean for West Coast-based Fisker Automotive, which took stimulus funds from Washington?
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J.C. Penney CEO gets the boot, but were his ideas really that bad?
Apr 9, 2013
J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson has been given the boot after just 17 months as head of the struggling department store chain.
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Mike Ullman named CEO of JC Penney after Ron Johnson ousted
Apr 8, 2013
Mike Ullman has been named CEO of JC Penney after Ron Johnson was ousted.
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Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?
Apr 8, 2013
A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.
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What is the best age for innovation?
Apr 8, 2013
Are you more innovative in your 20s or your 50s? Tom Agan, managing partner at innovation and brand consultancy Rivia, has come up with answer that might surprise you.
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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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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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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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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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Immigration reform worries E-Verify critics
Apr 10, 2013
The system continues to thwart some eligible workers at a time lawmakers mull expanding it.
22
Maine lobster could get a marketing boost
Apr 10, 2013
The lobster industry in Maine has proposed higher fees in order to spend big bucks on advertising. Some lobstermen say that’s a waste of money, but others hope it will increase demand.
0
Airbus CEO on coming to America, and what it takes to compete with Boeing
Apr 10, 2013
CEO of Airbus Fabrice Bregier joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to discuss their new assembly plant in Alabama and what's ahead for the company.
0
The secret behind Bed Bath & Beyond earnings: Finding its niche
Apr 10, 2013
A preview of Bed Bath & Beyond's earnings: Housing uptick helps, and online competition lurks.
3
JC Penney and what's behind (mark) ups and downs of clothing prices
Apr 9, 2013
Ron Johnson's ousting as CEO of JC Penney ends his bid to break retail's cycle of marking products up just to mark them down in sales. Shoppers rejected Johnson's strategy of keeping low prices instead of discounting.
0
Is failure good or bad? How you define it can depend on where you live
Apr 9, 2013
The Washington perspective is that failure is failure. The West Coast thinks failure leads to innovation. What does that mean for West Coast-based Fisker Automotive, which took stimulus funds from Washington?
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J.C. Penney CEO gets the boot, but were his ideas really that bad?
Apr 9, 2013
J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson has been given the boot after just 17 months as head of the struggling department store chain.
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Mike Ullman named CEO of JC Penney after Ron Johnson ousted
Apr 8, 2013
Mike Ullman has been named CEO of JC Penney after Ron Johnson was ousted.
0
Do merging airlines actually mean better customer service?
Apr 8, 2013
A new report says airlines scored their second best performance rankings in 23 years. Find out how that happened when airline mergers were supposed to make customer service worse.
3
What is the best age for innovation?
Apr 8, 2013
Are you more innovative in your 20s or your 50s? Tom Agan, managing partner at innovation and brand consultancy Rivia, has come up with answer that might surprise you.
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