Latest from Marketplace Staff

• Feb 19, 2007

  SoHo on the cheap

  With prices in Manhattan rising ever higher, more and more Americans are opting for its trendy — but cheap — South American counterpart: the Palermo Soho neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

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• Feb 19, 2007

  How long can Palestine wait?

  Hope for swift and substantial progress in the Middle East is fading as the peace process stalls in Jerusalem. That's bad news for a Palestinian economy sinking further into a state of disrepair.

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• Feb 17, 2007

  Living in unsettled territory

  With Palestinian President Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert meeting on Monday, Jewish settlers in the Palestinian territories are looking for signs of what might happen to their lives and homes. Orly Halpern reports.

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• Feb 17, 2007

  FCC’s looking to get tough on violence

  Current TV regulations put strong restrictions on sex, but not violence. That could change under some new rules the Federal Communications Commission is considering. Pat Loeb reports.

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• Feb 17, 2007

  Week on Wall Street

  Stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson discusses with host Kai Ryssdal what happened on Wall Street this week and what may lie ahead.

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• Feb 17, 2007

  Mailbag for Friday, February 16, 2007

  Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers your burning money questions. This week, advice on: funding a child's college education, dealing with identity theft, transferring stock as a gift and answering the question, "What protections does a mutual fund have?"

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• Feb 17, 2007

  Straight Story: Retirement, the right way

  The Labor Department will issue new guidelines for work retirement plans. Economics editor Chris Farrell has some recommendations.

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• Feb 17, 2007

  Day in the Work Life: The lion king

  On this week's 'A Day In the Work Life,' our regular look at how folks trade time for money, we hold steady with a lion tamer.

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• Feb 17, 2007

  Buzzword: Piggyback

  Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Marketplace Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance, "Piggyback." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?

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• Feb 17, 2007

  For some, it doesn’t pay to get sick

  Congress wants to guarantee all American workers a week of paid sick leave a year. But the legislation is making some businesses sick with worry. Tess Vigeland interviews Debra Ness of the National Partnership for Women and Families.

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