Segments From This Episode

• Pretending to be poor can change your perspective

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Poverty simulation exercises confront participants with empty wallets, tough choices, and a better understanding of low-income people.

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• Monopoly the movie?

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Unfortunately, "Battleship" wasn't the last board game-turned-movie.

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• California, all of a sudden, hits $5 gas

  by Adriene Hill

  California discovers how close it lives to a tipping point when refinery problems combine to create a sudden gas shortage and a spike in prices.

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• Insurance exchanges get the PR treatment

  by Dan Gorenstein

  The federal government has signed on with an ad agency for a $3 million campaign to promote insurance exchanges.

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• Stores expand holiday layaway options

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Slow economic recovery means layaway is thriving.

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• The economy is like a rollercoaster

  by Marketplace Contributor

  The economy is like a rollercoaster, asserts the Funny or Die "news" team. But who is running this rollercoaster? And why have we been stuck on the screaming on the way down part for such a long time?

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• Could the jobs statistics be rigged?

  by Mitchell Hartman

  The unemployment numbers pass from Census surveyors to career civil servants at the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the political appointees in the administration. But safeguards to protect the integrity of the data abound.

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• Jobless rate below 8%, candidates vague about jobs in debate

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Reviewing the week's headlines on Wall Street and beyond. This week: debating jobs. The new numbers and the presidential candidates' vague answers of what policies they'd use to boost employment.

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