Segments From This Episode

• Keeping processed foods free of GMOs nearly impossible

  by Adriene Hill

  Genetically modified crops are so pervasive that food companies that don't use GMO ingredients still have traces in their products.

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• EU summit to focus on banking union

  European leaders meet in Brussels today for a summit on whether to enact a banking union across the EU and check in on beleaguered Greece.

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• Amazon pushes Kindles in classrooms

  by Dan Gorenstein

  Getting the Kindle into the hands of students offers Amazon a golden opportunity to bite into Apple's iPad market.

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• Nissan to try unconventional steering

  by Mark Garrison

  Within a year, Nissan hopes to replace the mechanical method of controlling steering with one that uses electronics.

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• Spain continues bailout waiting game

  by Christopher Werth

  For months now, Spain has been bracing itself for a bailout. While the country waits, the government has already made many of the deep budget cuts that typically come with bailouts.

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• Is China engineering its own economic slowdown?

  by Rob Schmitz

  China's third-quarter GDP data shows the country grew at its weakest pace in three and a half years and is on track for its slowest annual growth since 1999.

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• Report: Student debt up five percent

  by Amy Scott

  A report out this morning says college students are leaving school ever deeper in debt. Students graduated last year owing more than $26,000 on average — up five percent from the year before.

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• Weekly unemployment claims up 13 percent

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Seasonally adjusted claims for unemployment insurance rose by 46,000 last week, or about 13 percent. Is this a blip or the start of a new trend?

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• As Newsweek ends print edition, a look back

  by Jeff Horwich

  Michael Isikoff, who reported for Newsweek from 1994 until 2010 shares his thoughts on the end of Newsweek in print and what the magazine meant to staffers and readers over the years.

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• PODCAST: Newsweek leaves the newsstand and barley gets decoded

  by Jeff Horwich

  No more Newsweek on the newsstand. Is China is deliberately slowing its own economy. U.S. students are carrying record student loan debt, and the risks and promises of Nissan routing your cars steering wheel through its computer.

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