Marketplace for Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Segments From This Episode

• Reading between the lines of the Fed’s decision

  by Jeremy Hobson

  Kai Ryssdal talks to Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson, who parses the Fed's statement after they announced they would not raise interest rates.

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• Apartment construction on the rise

  by Mitchell Hartman

  August housing numbers were released — and the number of housing starts, home completions and apartment building construction is up. But permits for single-family homes were down What does this mean for the housing market and the recovery?

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• Insurance companies respond to health care reform

  by Janet Babin

  Insurance policies change as new provisions from health care reform go into effect Thursday.

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• India to crack down on discrimination in private sector?

  by Raymond Thibodeaux

  India's government is attempting to reduce caste discrimination in the country by setting employment quotas for some of India's lowest caste members. It made a move into the private industry by asking India's largest companies to disclose which castes their employees are from.

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• Poverty, hunger: Can they be solved by 2015?

  Kai Ryssdal talks to Marketplace's Stephen Beard about the UN's Millennium Development Goals, which are supposed to be achieved by 2015, and how much progress the world has made to reach them.

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• A black market for mooncakes in China

  by Rob Schmitz

  China's mid-Autumn Festival and its tradition of eating mooncakes has lent itself to an underground economy worth billions.

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• Don’t bet on economic forecasting

  by Marketplace Staff

  You can't predict the future. Commentator Justin Wolfers believes economists shouldn't be trusted to either.

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