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Oct 23, 2010
Weekly Wrap: Foreclosures and banks
Foreclosures, corporate and bank profits reign as some of the biggest stories of the week. The Big Money's Heidi Moore and the Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy talk with Kai Ryssdal about whether the foreclosure issue is improving and how banks are doing right now.
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Oct 23, 2010
Tracking the campaign money
This is the first election cycle since Citizens United, the Supreme Court's ruling that unions and companies can spend as much as they want on almost anything they want. Dave Levinthal of the Center for Responsive Politics talks with Kai Ryssdal about where the external money in politics is coming from.
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Oct 23, 2010
Unhappy meal: McDonald’s ups prices
McDonald's has survived the recession better than most other restaurants. Better than most other companies, in fact. The burger chain announced this week it's seen sales rise for 30 consecutive quarters. McDonald's is doing so well some managers are even re-thinking the competition. Tony Arnold explains.
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Oct 23, 2010
Starbucks uncorks wine, beer menu
If you amp up for your workday with a Starbucks latte, how about swinging by on the way home to unwind with a glass of merlot? This week, the company started testing out alcohol on the menu at one store in Seattle. Ann Dornfeld reports on whether this could be the company's next big foray into mind-altering substances.
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Oct 23, 2010
How perception affects our sense of wealth, and taxes
How we each individually live our lives often depends on how we see our peers live their lives. For people making $250,000 a year, or the top 2 percent income in the country, that means probably surrounding themselves with even richer people. And that's why there's a debate over taxes, says the New Yorker's James Surowiecki.
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Oct 23, 2010
How far does $250K go in New York City?
The cost of living changes, of course, depending on where you live. And if you happen to want to live in Manhattan, that cost of living is very, very high. Sally Herships visits with a Manhattanite to see how far a $250,000 salary can get you in New York City.
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Oct 22, 2010
Geithner shifting focus from ‘currency war’ to trade
Chris, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has asked the G-20 members to limit their trade surpluses and trade deficits to a percentage of their economic output. Chris Low reports.
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Oct 22, 2010
Global currencies and a weak dollar: what does it mean?
Countries have been trying to manipulate their currency to boost exports, and that's pitting nations against one another.
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Oct 22, 2010
AIG sells Asia branch to pay back bailouts
The Asian Life Insurance arm of AIG went public bringing in almost $18 billion to pay back the federal bailout of the insurance giant during the financial crisis two years ago.
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Oct 22, 2010
Taylor Swift masters social media marketing
Taylor Swift sure knows how to promote her music. The country singer/songwriter has a new album coming out, and she's already released one single, which you'd know if you were one of her four and a half million Twitter followers.
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