Marketplace for May 3, 2011

Segments From This Episode

• Following the terrorism money trail

  by Tess Vigeland

  

  Osama bin Laden's death is expected to have an impact on terror financing. Matthew Levitt of The Washington Institute discusses how counterterrorism officials follow that money trail.

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• The problem with cheap food

  by Marketplace Staff

  Soaring food prices have caused worldwide protests. But making food less expensive isn't the only solution.

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• Freakonomics: Is handing down a business good for business?

  by Marketplace Staff

  Family-firm succession is alive and well. But is it good for profits? Freakonomics Radio's Stephen Dubner takes a look at why it happens — and why it doesn't happen so much in the U.S.

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• Swiss freeze $1 billion in dictators’ assets

  Swiss banks say they have frozen almost $1 billion in assets from the former leaders of Egypt and Tunisia, as well as Colonel Gaddafi.

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• Fewer American homes own TV sets

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  TV ownership in the U.S. has fallen for the first time in 20 years due to poverty and the Internet. The young and restless watch TV online.

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• Geithner extends debt ceiling deadline

  by David Gura

  The Treasury Secretary can postpone the day of reckoning until August 2. Congress created the debt ceiling, but that ceiling has little to do with bigger issues like spending and taxation.

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• Levee breach spares town but douses harvest hopes for many farmers

  by Adam Allington

  

  The Army Corps of Engineers' move to blow up an agricultural levee saves Cairo, Ill., from flooding, but inundates prime growing land in Missouri, costing farmers hundreds of millions in losses.

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