Tess Vigeland and Marketplace Money's senior producer Deb Clark review what listeners had to say about stories involving QE2, the Sandwich Generation, musicians who have day jobs, and the comic book hero, "Unemployment Man."
Jeremy Hobson and Chris Low take a closer look at the debt problems in Ireland that are causing a lot of investors to wonder if we've got another Greece on our hands.
Senator Mark Warner wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times, outlining his proposal for a compromise to extend tax cuts that affect the nation's wealthiest. Alisa Roth explains.
Along with hiking the retirement age and cutting entitlements, another thought the commission advising on how to cut the deficit has proposed to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction for home loans bigger than half a million dollars. Jill Schlesinger explains.
Jeremy Hobson speaks to Republican Congressman Dave Camp of Michigan. Congressman Camp is a member of the President's member of the full deficit panel, and he join's Marketplace to discuss the proposed plan to cut U.S. deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade.
In the U.S., Type 2 diabetes is usually associated with overeating and obesity. But when Bloomberg Markets magazine reporter Jason Gale visited India, he found a rise of diabetes diagnoses in people who didn't fit that description. Steve Chiotakis talks to Gale about his findings.
With applications for jobless benefits hitting a four-month low, there may be a ray of hope in the jobs industry. As Iowa Public Radio's Sarah McCammon visits a job fair, she finds much of the work is temporary, but that could be a good sign.
The faulty paperwork scandal put another huge obstacle in the foreclosure crisis. But who were these so-called unqualified employees who were hired by banks? Bob Moon talks to Marian Wang from ProPublica about what she found after sifting through the job listings.
