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  • Reporter Kenny Malone talks to Cuba experts to see how they expect Cuba will be affected by layoff of half a million public sector workers.

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  • Kai Ryssdal talks to Wall Street Journal reporter Serena Ng about how the insurance company AIG intends to repay bail out funds back to the federal government.

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  • The final season of Oprah's TV show is now underway. Once it ends, it'll leave a huge gap — not just in daytime programming, but also in Chicago's local economy. The Windy City has been home to many of the most popular talk shows. Why? Tony Arnold reports.

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  • The most closely-watched legal challenge to the health care reform law goes before a federal judge in Florida. Twenty states filed the lawsuit, which contends that the health reform law is unconstitutional. Reporter Nancy Marshall Genzer talks the details with Bill Radke.

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  • Cuba says it's eliminating half-a-million state workers over the next year. In return, the government says it'll allow some people to become self-employed. George Montalavan, international economic consultant, talks with Steve Chiotakis about why Cuba is making these layoffs.

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  • Kai Ryssdal talks to Susan Scafidi, the director of Fordham University's new Fashion Law Institute, which will provide legal services for design students and designers and train future lawyers who would like to focus on the issues confronting the fashion industry.

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  • Software consultant Amit Chawla talks about the song that reminds him about how lucky he is to have his wife and children while he's on the road.

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  • Commentator Reihan Salam thinks that the U.S. government needs to stop taxing Americans working abroad as a way to encourage entrepreneurs domestically and abroad to exchange information and ideas about new markets.

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  • California regulators have ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to survey all its natural gas pipelines after one of its pipelines in San Bruno, Calif., exploded. Reporter Nancy Marshall Genzer talks with Steve Chiotakis.

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  • Meeting in Basel, Switzerland, regulators agreed yesterday to force banks to triple their amount of capital reserves — spare cash they can use in a crisis. Matthew Bishop, U.S. editor of The Economist magazine, talks with Bill Radke about how this will fit in with the American regulatory framework.

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