Israel's labor and demographic numbers indicate that Israel doesn't really need foreign workers. But there are still hundreds of thousands of foreign workers. Marketplace's Alisa Roth reports from Tel Aviv.
Commentator Bethany McLean has some advice for the writers of the the laws of the Frank-Dodd financial reform and also to Congress and financiers who may influence over the laws are shaped.
Prices for some global commodities have spiked as much as 20 percent in recent days, as flooding continues to ravage northern Australia. Stuart Cohen explains.
When you're in the middle of the United States, shipping to international markets can at first seem slow and expensive. But the nearby Great Lakes is actually turning out to be an emerging shipping center. Dan Bobkoff reports.
Bank of America has assembled a special action-squad, of sorts according to the New York Times in response to a threat by Julian Assange of the website Wikileaks who has vowed to expose corruption at a major U.S. bank.
Obama administration economic adviser Austan Goolsbee warned Congress not to play chicken with the nation's debt ceiling, which is currently $14.3 trillion. Julia Coronado explains.
