Marketplace for Friday, November 19, 2010

Segments From This Episode

• The value of a dollar

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Kai Ryssdal talks to photographer Jonathan Blaustein about his "Value of a dollar" project, where he photographs a dollar's worth of various types of food.

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• Small talk: ski masks with beards, taxis of the future

  by Marketplace Staff

  Marketplace's Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano talk with fellow staffers Dalasie Michaelis, George Judson and Nancy Farghalli about under-the-radar business stories. This week: ski masks with beards, smart vending machines and taxis of the future.

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• Athletes take money to make market corrections

  by Marketplace Staff

  Sports Illustrated writer Jon Wertheim doesn't find it surprising that athletes and their families demand and take money from alums or universities. He thinks they're simply acting rationally, from an economic point of view.

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• Weekly Wrap: Bernanke’s message to the world, Congress

  by Marketplace Staff

  Kai Ryssdal talks to Heidi Moore of the Dealbook at the New York Times and John Carney from CNBC about Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's defense of the Fed's decision to devalue the dollar.

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• Bernanke strikes back with bold statements

  by Jennifer Collins

  Ever since the Federal Reserve announced its plans to stimulate the U.S. economy with a $600 billion bond-buying spree, chairmen Ben Bernanke has come under fire from critics. Today in a speech in Germany, he fired back. Jennifer Collins reports.

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• A look at the effectiveness of stock buybacks

  by Bob Moon

  Companies may buyback their own stocks to increase the price of the remaining shares in the market. But that may not be the best plan for the company in the long-term.

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• Recruiting the right people to teach

  by Amy Scott

  Marketplace's Amy Scott takes a look at a second approach in teacher training in Louisiana: The fast track.

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