Marketplace for July 13, 2011
News Corp. abandons plans to get full ownership of the profitable British network BSkyB. Can Rupert Murdoch bounce back?
Host Kai Ryssdal retraces his steps to the site of Marketplace's 2006 broadcast from Chongqing, China.
A booming labor market has made people richer… and pickier.
The debt ceiling debate is dominating the headlines. But there's something else more important to this economy.
Lawmakers got their once-in-a-quarter shot at grilling Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke today. Many of the questions appeared to have less to do with matters like stimulus and the debt ceiling, and more to do with representatives' political agendas.
The latest stimulus round is over. But Bernanke tells Congress that if needed, the Fed will act again to try to prime pump the economy.
The video game publisher pays big to go small with mobile games.
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