Marketplace for Friday, September 11, 2009

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• Where’s financial system regulation?

  by Marketplace Staff

  White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers talks with Kai Ryssdal about what the Obama administration has done so far about the financial crisis, and what it plans to do to keep it from happening again.

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• Sovereign wealth funds pull back

  by Marketplace Staff

  Dubai's sovereign wealth fund is stopping investments. Jeremy Hobson reports these types of funds haven't had the greatest year.

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• Why all the bidders for BusinessWeek?

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  News service provider Bloomberg is making a bid to buy BusinessWeek, one of several parties interested in the magazine. But isn't print media dying? Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.

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• State tax revenue losses hurt schools

  by Joel Rose

  The University of California Board of Regents is mulling a tuition hike to fill a budget deficit. Joel Rose reports.

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• Weekly Wrap: Why the markets are up

  by Marketplace Staff

  T. Rowe Price's Andy Brooks and Fortune's Leigh Gallagher talk with Kai Ryssdal about why people are jumping back into the markets despite sobering economic realities, and whether reform can be expected.

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• Businesses want gov’t help on flu

  by Mitchell Hartman

  At a Congressional hearing, businesses warned they might need a little government help to get them through a flu outbreak. Mitchell Hartman reports.

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• New York’s mindset 8 years after 9/11

  by Marketplace Staff

  People throughout the country are remembering 9/11. For many, the memory of the terrorist attacks has faded a bit. But in New York, it's very much present in people's minds. Amy Scott reports.

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• Small talk: Grocery line, surgeons, suits

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Marketplace's Brendan Newnam and Rico Gagliano talk with fellow staffers George Judson, Jeremy Hobson, and Stacey Vanek-Smith about under-the-radar business stories: the fastest grocery line, sleepy surgeons, and no suits to save costs in Bangladesh.

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