Marketplace Morning Report for Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Segments From This Episode

• Calculating the value of college football coaches

  by Marketplace Staff

  Coach Nick Saban of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide football team makes $5 million a year — a salary which is hard to justify from a public university. But if coaches and football teams bring revenue to universities, are the benefits of a football team and expensive coaching staff worth the cost?

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• UPDATE: Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index reports confidence fell in December

  by Mitchell Hartman

  It was a good holiday season for retailers and everyone was saying that the U.S. consumer was back. So you can understand everyone's surprise when the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index reported confidence fell in December. Mitchell Hartman explains.

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• Obama administration gives incentives for states who simplify medicaid enrollment for children

  by Gregory Warner

  Alabama got a $55 million bonus from the Obama administration this week for making it easier to sign up kids for insurance under Medicaid. Gregory Warner has more.

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• Estonia looks to fill rare earth market

  by Marketplace Staff

  As China cuts back its rare earth exports, Estonia is stepping in to pick up the slack. Christopher Werth explains.

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• New plan for transparency in banker bonuses

  There's a new plan in the news that would force banks to reveal how big banker bonuses are, and why. Stephen Beard reports.

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• Charities see an increase in online giving

  by Jennifer Collins

  The two biggest days of the year for charitable donations are the last two days of the year. But in 2010, estimates are charity donations will be down ten percent. But this drop isn't in online giving.

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• Case Shiller index announces a drop in home prices for October

  by Jeremy Hobson

  Jeremy Hobson speaks to Juli Niemann about housing numbers and what that means for the economy.

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