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Jun 19, 2010
Getting Personal
Tess Vigeland and finance expert Ilyce Glink take Chicagoans' questions at the Thompson Center on landing a job, how much a college degree is worth and how to market yourself online.
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Jun 19, 2010
Riding out a jobless recovery
Tess Vigeland chats with John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas on his thoughts of the job market's future
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Jun 18, 2010
Will Facebook profits cause it to go public?
Reuters reports Facebook is making up to $800 million in revenue. Scott Austin, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire, explains why that's a big deal.
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Jun 18, 2010
Toyota ranks 21st in list of auto brands
In a study ranking top auto brands, U.S. companies came out ahead of Toyota for the first time in several years.
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Jun 18, 2010
Video: BP wallows in walrus woes
On this week's Marketplace Minute: BP woes and walruses, iPhone 4 preorder wars, deflation and early French retirement.
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Jun 18, 2010
Ruling wipes out some NLRB decisions
The National Labor Relations Board mediates disputes between companies and labor unions. It's supposed to have five members from both political parties, but it had just two members between 2008-2010. So the Supreme Court is throwing out nearly 600 of its decisions from that period. Brett Neely reports.
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Jun 17, 2010
Russia moves off U.S. dollars, euros to stockpile loonies
Bypassing the U.S. dollar and euro, Russia says it will start stockpiling the Canadian dollar in its foreign currency reserves.
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Jun 17, 2010
A proposal for an Internet ‘kill switch’
A bill proposed in the Senate would give the president power to seize control of the Internet in response to a national security threat. Jeff Horwich reports.
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Jun 17, 2010
The slippery slope of situational ethics
Goldman Sachs's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics says the bank pledges to conduct itself in accordance with "the highest ethical standards." Unless it doesn't want to. Greg Unruh, director of the Lincoln Center for Ethics, talks with Kai Ryssdal about why the bank included a 'safety valve' on certain provisions in its code.
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Jun 17, 2010
Wall Street: Another mess to clean up
Far removed from the Gulf, Wall Street excesses are also in need of a clean up. Commentator Robert Reich wonders where financial reform is.
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