Marketplace for October 21, 2011

Segments From This Episode

• Want to drive a NYC taxi? It could cost you $1 million

  by Bob Moon

  This final note today. Taxicabs are a regular sight along New York City's busy streets. But you can't drive one without a taxi medallion, an alum…

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• A ‘letter’ to Goldman shareholders

  by Andy Borowitz

  Commentator and humorist Andy Borowitz imagines correspondence from the offices of Goldman Sachs.

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• News Corp. on the grill

  by Jennifer Collins

  Rupert Murdoch faces shareholders at today's annual meeting in Los Angeles

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• Weekly Wrap: Greece and Obama’s jobs plan

  by Marketplace Staff

  Reviewing the week's headlines on Wall Street. This week: more aid for Greece, and the roadblocks for the president's jobs act.

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• Wal-Mart announces cutbacks on employee health care

  by Bob Moon

  It's going to stop offering health insurance to any new hires who work less than 24 hours a week and up the premiums for full-time employees.

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• Will new ACO regulations help with health care costs?

  by Marketplace Staff

  Reporter Gregory Warner discusses the new health care regulations that will change how doctors and hospitals get paid.

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• EPA announces plans to regulate "fracking"

  by Scott Tong

  The natural gas drilling technique has usher in a market revolution with controversial environmental consequences.

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• Scotland’s governing party urges split from U.K.

  The Scottish National Party is holding its annual conference. It wants Scotland to be politically and economically independent of the U.K.

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