The best way to find out how China works — really works — is to get out and about, as Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal came to find out on a Chongqing city bus.
You never know what you're going to get when you decide to live with someone, even if they are your friend. We get advice on how to prevent quibbles over money with your roommates.
The combination of older, set-in-their-ways employees and fresh-faced, technologically forward bosses may be explosive. But one survey says that isn't the case.
Adjustable rate mortgages got a bad rap from the housing crisis. But not all of them are evil and some may help you save thousands of dollars on your mortgage.
Reviewing the week's news on Wall Street. This week: Ben Bernanke's latest remarks, the slow economic recovery and paying for the wild weather across the country.
Thanks to a quick and aggressive response to the major earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis that hit three months ago, Japan is beginning to recover quite well.
In China, homes are being built like they're going out of style — and people are buying. From Shanghai, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal discusses what's going on with China's real estate market and whether it's heading towards a bubble.
Critics say a new report proves that politics trumped economics in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision over the dumping site at Yucca Mountain.
German health authorities have confirmed that sprouts from an organic farm in Germany are the source of the E. coli outbreak that has killed 31 people.
At the end of Marketplace's two week trip to China, host Kai Ryssdal reflects on how the country has changed since our first visit five years ago and why we decided to come back.
Import prices rose for an eighth straight month in May despite a drop in fuel costs. Chris Low, chief economist with FTN Financial, explains how that will impact our wallets.
Jill Schlesinger, editor-at-large with CBS/MoneyWatch, takes a look at recent stock market activity, and how the latest setbacks might impact savings plans.
Organizers of the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix say that the race — originally set to open the Formula 1 season in March — will not go on later this year.
Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss has done a "dramatic reading" of Apple's user license agreements — that 40-page document you must adhere to when you buy iTunes products.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo must make 'substancial improvements' if they want access to President Obama's Home Affordable Modification Program.
Telecommunication companies across the globe are preparing to role out plans to allow payments by mobile phones. But the technology already insists in Uganda — where limited access to traditional banking has paved the way for mobile monetary transactions.
Three months after the big earthquake and tsunami, one of the big problems the country faces is what to do with all the debris. In the quake-stricken zone, there is 100 years worth of garbage to clean up.
Corporations have long sponsored floats in the parades and other things that kept the sponsorship within the gay community. Now though, it's expanding to general merchandising.
The N12 is a new bikini that involved no stitching in its construction. All it took was a wad of nylon and a printer. In the future, a lot of your clothes might be made this way.
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA, held its fourth loan modification convention in L.A. last weekend, coming face-to-face with homeowners to try to do what their banks can't.
Faced with the dilemma of how to fill the energy gap left by its recent decision to move away from nuclear power, Germany is increasing fossil fuel power generation.
Yes, it's the summer movie season. Cue the sequels, blockbusters and 3D pictures. But what has happened to the good old-fashioned laugh-until-you-want-to-cry romantic comedy?
A new report released from the Brookings Institution shows that highly skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States now outnumber lower-skilled ones. Andrey Singer from the Brookings Institution explains.
Adolfo Laurenti, deputy chief economist at Mesirow Financial, explains how recent stock numbers show a slowdown in economic activity, and how factors like oil prices and the Chinese housing bubble could impact the economic soft patch.
The U.S . Senate voted yesterday to end the banking industry's rally to block caps on debit car swipe fees yesterday. Greg McBride at Bankrate.com explains.
The U.S. Senate has rejected a plan, backed by banks, for a six-month delay in the implementation of a cap on debit card swipe fees. Karen Petrou with Federal Financial Analytics explains.
Anna Chapman — the red-headed cover girl of the Russian spy ring uncovered by the FBI last year — is no longer a woman of international mystery, and instead is promoting technology investment in Russia.
China holds more than $1 trillion of U.S. debt, so today the country has said it hopes the U.S. will take effective steps to improve its fiscal position.
It's assumed Christine LaGarde will get the job. Emerging markets complain Europeans always run the IMF, but they haven't been able to coalesce around their own candidate.
New reports show U.S. exports are slipping, and 1 percent of U.S. companies sell products abroad. The Commerce Department wants to change that — one (very) small enterprise at a time.
Facebook has been rolling out facial recognition software to its users for several months now. And unless you've turned it off, you're available to be recognized.
Artist Robin Hasty discusses her photo essay, Homeland, which documents the collapse of the U.S. economy by focusing on the people who are re-envisioning and rebuilding life within it.
In a speech today, President Obama announced a plan for an expanded federal job training program for the manufacturing sector, hoping to jumpstart the industry and provide more education for young people.
Going over listeners' responses to past broadcasts. This week: the importance of the iCloud, what you're really thinking about while walking down grocery aisles and the green versus green debate.
