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  • Daily Variety editor Michael Speier talks to host Mark Austin Thomas about why advertisers so far are reluctant to sponsor the network's new fall TV shows.

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  • On average, one in four credit reports is wrong. Commentator Amelia Tyagi asks: Why are we OK with a credit reporting industry that is so inaccurate?

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  • As the WNBA prepares to kick off its 10th season this weekend, business of sports expert David Carter talks to host Mark Austin Thomas about the challenges faced by women's professional sports leagues.

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  • Illegal immigrants coming into the United States are using increasingly sophisticated networks of smuggling and document fraud. Sanden Totten has the details of one woman's story.

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  • President Bush signed the $70 billion tax cut into law today — and Congress is looking at cutting another $23 billion. Commentator and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich wonders why we keep cutting taxes when we're spending so much money.

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  • The automaker announced it will build a $400 million factory in the Midwest, the same day GM laid off hundreds of UK employees. It's more evidence that Japan's auto industry is thriving as American carmakers struggle. Steve Tripoli reports.

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  • The government said today that inflation may be back, and investors expressed their concern. Cheryl Glaser looks at why Wall Street was so unhappy with the news.

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  • The current debate in Congress could change the Internet as we know it. Marketplace's Lisa Napoli talks to host Mark Austin Thomas

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  • Commentator and economist Len Burman says the tax-cut bill President Bush will sign this week is actually not the best way to go about reducing the tax load.

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  • There's nothing as good as mother's breast milk for a baby. Increasingly, that milk could come from businesses that operate on a strictly for-profit basis. Nancy Mullane reports.

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