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Jun 29, 2010
‘Debt will cause another crisis’
Henry Blodget, editor-in-chief of The Business Insider, talks with Bill Radke about why he believes that even with the new proposed financial reform measures we are at risk for another global crisis.
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Jun 29, 2010
How BP’s woes might hurt the market
The center of Tropical Storm Alex is not expected to pass near the site of BP's leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. But it could delay oil collection efforts, and that could be bad news for the company's financial health.
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Jun 29, 2010
Lessons of oil spills past not learned
The Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 was nowhere as vast the current BP oil spill in the Gulf, but it did stir up environmentalists, the federal government and the oil industry to make things safer — unfortunately, not all of that attitude made it through the years.
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Jun 29, 2010
Afghani officials smuggling U.S. money?
According to the Wall Street Journal, billions of dollars — allegedly tax payers' money — are being air lifted out of Afghanistan, in the latest of a string of corruption reports from the country. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
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Jun 29, 2010
A Toronto G-20 summit review
Tess Vigeland reviews the Toronto G-20 summit, which wrapped up yesterday, with Marketplace's London bureau chief Stephen Beard, particularly if the summit helped bridge disagreements between Europe and the U.S.
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Jun 29, 2010
Summer Reading: Betsey Stevenson
Economist Betsey Stevenson shares what she'll be reading this summer on the beach.
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Jun 29, 2010
FDA wants to limit antibiotics in meat
The Food and Drug Administration released draft regulations intended to limit antibiotic use in meat-producing animals to prevent outbreaks of drug-resistant viruses.
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Jun 29, 2010
Major players studying financial reform bill
Congress's financial regulation bill will be up for vote soon, bankers, lawyers, consultants and regulators are reading the 4,000-page bill to see how it could affect them.
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Jun 29, 2010
White House wants more bandwidth
The White House announced a plan today to free up to 500 megahertz of spectrum over the next 10 years to accommodate the increasing demand for wireless technology.
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Jun 29, 2010
Court says oversight board stays
The Supreme Court issued a decision today on Free Fund Enterprise v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which upheld the constitutionality of the PCAOB, but adds greater oversight to the board as well. Brett Neely reports.
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