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Oct 30, 2010
Letters: Listeners respond to ‘What is Rich?’
The "What is Rich?" show got a lot of listeners talking. Tess Vigeland and senior producer Deborah Clark go over the comments.
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Oct 30, 2010
Zombie economic ideas still among us
Professor John Quiggin, author of "Zombie Economics," talks with Kai Ryssdal about how some economic ideas can be zombies — theories that refuse to die no matter how wrong they prove to be.
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Oct 30, 2010
Life with no more ‘Lost’
Lost in all of the TV coverage of the midterm election is this: November is a pretty important month for TV folks too because of sweeps. TV producers and writers tend to save their best stuff for this period. And that was true for commentator and co-creator of "Lost," Damon Lindelof.
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Oct 30, 2010
Weekly Wrap: What lies ahead
Leigh Gallagher from Fortune Magazine and John Carney from CNBC talk with Kai Ryssdal about the big news that will happen next week: midterm elections, and the Federal Reserve's next attempt to try and turn things around economically with its latest quantitative easing plan.
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Oct 29, 2010
Halliburton and BP’s mess will change the way contractors do business
The White House panel investigating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico says British oil giant BP may not be the only one to blame. The panel's chief investigator claims Halliburton didn't clearly inform BP the cement mix it used on the well was unstable.
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Oct 29, 2010
Housing and the GDP: A fairytale ending?
The gross domestic product reading, or GDP was 2 percent today. That's not quite what analysts were expecting. Nancy Marshall Genzer explains.
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Oct 29, 2010
GDP justifies further help from the Fed
Last quarter's GDP numbers came out, and we saw a 2 percent growth. According to Chris Low, this is good growth, but it needs to get better.
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Oct 29, 2010
GDP is up, but not enough
The nation's economy grew at a 2 percent clip, which is a little less than analysts were expecting. Jill Schlesinger has more.
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Oct 29, 2010
GM to go public to pay back bailout
American automaker General Motors is expected to go public next month. This all in an effort to repay its government bailout money. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
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Oct 29, 2010
Freakonomics Radio: Is football taking sponsorships to the next level?
In Europe, sponsors reign supreme for sporting teams. Freakonomics Radio's Stephen Dubner explains the difference in American sports.
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