The Fed is about to roll out another round of a process called quantitative easing. It's aimed to get interest rates down and make borrowing cheaper, as well as push Americans to spend more. But that's not a good thing for people who are trying to save. Mitchell Hartman reports.
With the new Republican-controlled House, many have wondered how climate change and clean energy legislation will be effected. Steve Chiotakis talks to Adriene Hill about the prospects.
The World Cup is long over, but soccer fans in Seattle are still cheering. That's because their MLS team, the Seattle Sounders, has given them the power to vote on team management, and the response has been a big hit. Josh Platis reports.
Food is usually more appealing once you can see it. But would you pay more for it too? One study says that once you can see and touch a product, you're more willing to pay a higher price for it. Tess Vigeland and Dr. Antonio Rangel test out the theory with the sweetest trick in the book: dessert.
This week, T-Mobile started advertising that it has the nation's largest 4G network. Meanwhile, Sprint, for a while now, has said it has the first wireless 4G network. Verizon's been talking up their 4G too. And it all sounds very attractive if you've been using a 3G network all this time. But what's the difference between a 3G and a 4G network?
The Federal Reserve announced this week its plans to pump $600 billion more into the economy, in hopes of attracting companies to buy bonds and invest. But these companies need to do more than just invest, reports Stacey Vanek Smith.
Today's jobs report showed that hiring is rising in the private sector, and that job growth is growing moderately. Much of the hiring, though, has been for temporary positions. Will the temp-to-permanent job model work in this economy? Mitchell Hartman reports.
Kai Ryssdal talks to Felix Salmon from Reuters and Leigh Gallagher from Fortune Magazine about the effect of a divided Congress on job and economic growth.
President Barack Obama will be visiting India during Diwali holiday festivities. India hasn't been too happy with the U.S.'s interaction with it's rival Pakistan. Will Indians feel more forgiving during the Festival of Lights?
Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland talks with Ron Lieber of the New York Times talks about about the struggles of the Sandwich Generation, people who care for their elderly parents and their older children at the same time.
"An adventure to bring comic relief to millions of heroes struggling through THE GREAT RECESSION!" it says on the official website for the Unemployed Man comic. Here are a few pages from the comic book.
The nation's unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent in October. That's despite this morning's Labor Department report that showed the U.S. economy added 151,000 jobs in the month. Scott Tong has more.
October saw a much larger job gain than expected, but unemployment remained the same, according to the latest Labor Department report. Jill Schlesinger explains.
Moody's and Standard & Poor's are famous for sitting in judgment on the credit worthiness of others. Now, the rating agencies face their own sort of downgrade. Stephen Beard has more.
President Obama will arrive in India's commercial capital of Mumbai to pry open India's markets to more U.S. businesses in defense, banking, retail and agriculture, and in the process create more jobs back home. Raymond Thibodeaux reports.
Stocks jumped especially high following the news that the Federal Reserve might let some banks boost their dividend payments to some investors. Scott Tong explains.
The Obama administration has just released a bunch of new rules aimed at for-profit colleges. Education correspondent Amy Scott talks with Tess Vigeland about how these rules will affect for-profits and why the most controversial rule was put off for a while.
Geolocation services like Foursquare and Facebook Places are supposed to be all the rage on the Internet these days. But a Pew Research Center study says only 4 percent of Americans online use these apps. Will it grow, or be just a tech fad?
Looking towards the future, where will jobs be? What industry will they be in? How should you prepare? Will the new government be helping out? Jeremy Hobson talks to Marketplace's Chris Farrell about the outlook.
Marketplace's Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano talk with fellow staffers Avishay Artsy, Dalasie Michaelis and Adriene Hill about under-the-radar business stories. This week: the lawsuit between two rabbits, the color of windmills, and rodent fur as fashion?
Author Edwidge Danticat, a writer from Haiti now living in the U.S., talks with Kai Ryssdal about her new book "Create Dangerously," what it's like to make art out of a country in chaos, and what Haitian culture means to its people and economy.
The elections are over, but the foreclosure problems continue on. Attorneys general from every state agreed last month to look into the banks and their paperwork, but with a new political landscape, will things change? Stacey Vanek Smith reports.
The economy is growing — but oh-so slowly. A double-dip recession is unlikely, but some economists fear that the U.S. economy will go from stuck to stagnant.
There have been strikes all over Europe for months in protest of austerity measures governments want to put into place. Some proposals would raise the retirement age. Alisa Roth reports on what would happen if the U.S. did just that.
Which are the best-off and the worst-off countries? The United Nations released its latest Human Development Index. It's a ranking of well-being across the globe and the United States is getting a demotion. As Economy 4.0 correspondent David Brancaccio reports, we are getting dinged for our economic inequality.
Kai Ryssdal talks to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing about how he's trying to revive a city that was hit hard by the bankruptcies of the local car companies and lost more than half of its population.
Kai listens to your responses to Marketplace's stories on the foreclosure crisis and "rugged" menswear. He also apologizes for ruining the finale of "Project Runway."
Apparently people do care what color their trash bags are. Kit Yarrow teaches consumer behavior at Golden Gate University and talks with Kai Ryssdal about Hefty's shift to marketing more black trash bags under the tag line, "Keeping garbage in the dark."
Just because Inner Mongolia is booming from all the coal and oil in the region doesn't mean that everyone's winning. Some of the former herders in the area are adapting to new jobs, but others just aren't sure what to do.
The Canadian government has blocked mining giant BHP Billiton's $40 billion takeover bid of the Canadian company Potash Corporation. Stephen Beard reports.
By all accounts, The Next Big Thing In Tech is supposed to be geolocation. Lots of businesses now offer special deals when you check in and yesterday Facebook announced a whole slew of deals for users on their Facebook Places location services. But a new study says that only 4 percent of online Americans are doing this stuff. So far.
China has begun conducting it census, and economists are interested in how many properties sit empty. It's a problem in the northwest city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia province, where parts of the city are completely vacant. Why all the empty houses? Rob Schmitz reports.
Canada's Potash Corporation accounts for 30 percent of the world's potash supply, and BHP Billiton wants in on the fertilizer's market. Stephen Beard has more.
Regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission say stock market buyers and sellers can no longer jump into the market without broker-supervision. Scott Tong explains.
The end of the election season also means the end of those inescapable political ads. But while those commercials may be gone, the competition still continues — as the other ads all fight for spots during the tight schedule of the holidays. Mitch Teich reports.
Latinos have been the backbone of the food service industry for decades, but few Hispanic-Americans have gotten their time in the culinary spotlight. That may be about to change, reports David Martin Davies.
Having won control of the House of Representatives, Republicans are making claims that they will work to repeal President Obama's health care and financial reform laws. But they haven't gotten specific as to how they plan to do it. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
Now that the elections are over, it's time to take a look at what the new government will mean for the country's future. Most at stake? The economy. So how will the new Republican-led House affect the Fed's moves? Stacey Vanek Smith reports.
President Obama pledged to work with Republicans after they seized control of the House, riding to victory on a vow to control spending. Washington bureau chief John Dimsdale talks with Bob Moon about how Republicans plan to rein in spending, how that might affect our fragile recovery, and what will become of the Bush-era tax cuts.
You're going to be hearing a lot of election results coverage everywhere you go today. And while that stuff if probably important, we choose to focus on the story of a humanoid robot being blasted into space.
California legislators no longer have to have a two-thirds majority to pass a budget — thanks to the passage of Prop. 25 — but that still doesn't fix California's money problems.
An election has come and gone, which means… thinking about the next election. Marketplace Commentator Robert Reich has a few tips for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
It was another election cycle of eye-popping money spent on campaign ads, on get out the vote efforts, on polling. Helped along of course with cash that came in from corporations and outside organizations. Scott Tong has more.
Congressman Joe Barton of Texas speaks with Jeremy Hobson about his plans for the House Energy and Commerce Committee and what will happen with the Bush-era tax cuts.
The payroll company ADP said this morning that private businesses added 43,000 jobs in October, after slashing 2,000 in September. Richard Dekaser has more.
One of the issues the lame duck session will have to deal with is the tax cuts passed during the Bush administration that are set to expire at the end of this year. Scott Tong has more.
Federal Reserve decides today on how much money it pumps into the financial system, by telling us exactly how many Treasury Securities it's going to buy each month. Scott Minerd explains.
