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Oct 12, 2010
Apps that prevent you from using your phone
Kai Ryssdal talks to Hiawatha Bray, a tech reporter at the Boston Globe, about smartphone apps that try to prevent you from using your phone while driving — or at least try and make you a less distracted driver.
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Oct 12, 2010
Road Warriors: April Whitney
April Whitney of Scoot! Magazine shares what song runs through her head as she drives to a scooter rally or is on a long ride with other scooters.
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Oct 12, 2010
If you want to lower the deficit…
New York Times columnist David Leonhardt presents four options to bring the federal deficit down.
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Oct 11, 2010
Lots of currency talk, no action yet
The world's financial leaders got together over the weekend to diffuse a potential currency war. Reporter Janet Babin talks with Bill Radke about what happened at the meeting and what will happen going forward.
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Oct 11, 2010
A look at the currency issue
Jane D'arista with the Political Economy Research Institute talks with Bill Radke about what the issue with currency is and how to solve the problem.
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Oct 11, 2010
A problem with Wall Street bonuses
A new Wall Street Journal article says some of the giant signing bonuses Wall Street firms paid out haven't worked out so well lately. Why? The article's author, Aaron Lucchetti, talks the details with Bill Radke.
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Oct 11, 2010
Trio wins Nobel Prize in Economics
The Nobel Prize in Economics has been announced and two Americans have won along with a British professor. Reporter Janet Babin talks with Bill Radke about who the winners are and whether their victory was a surprise.
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Oct 11, 2010
How is the phone book still surviving?
The Internet has hurt newspapers and the post office. And you would think you could add the phone book to the list, yet the telephone directory is still hanging on. Ammon Shea, author of "The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads," talks with Bill Radke about why the phone book may survive.
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Oct 9, 2010
Getting Personal: Married finances, your parents and their finances
Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland and MSN's Kathy Kristof answer listener questions. On tap this week: An unmarried couple splitting the finances, renting a condo to your children and helping a parent deal with his spotty finances.
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Oct 9, 2010
Freakonomics: A thirsty economist walks into an A&W Root Beer joint…
What would you do if you walked into an A&W Root Beer — and they said they were out of root beer? Or, if you stopped by a KFC that was out of chicken? Well, we know one economist who recently experienced both. Host Tess Vigeland talks to Freakonomics correspondent Stephen Dubner about the economic theory behind bad customer service.
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