Segments From This Episode

• What’s next for ‘No Child Left Behind’?

  by Amy Scott

  No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era education law, has been due for a rewrite since 2007.

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• BCS Championship tries end run around scalpers

  by Mitchell Hartman

  College football fans paid a variable price for the right to buy a championship game ticket based on their team's chances to win a slot.

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• Bank regulators loosen up on liquidity rule

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Regulators in Basel have decided riskier assets can be used as part of a bank's emergency buffer.

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• Apps transform cellphone users into citizen scientists

  by Liyna Anwar

  Scientists are looking to take advantage of the vast population of cellphone users to collect data.

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• Looking for the next big thing in consumer electronics

  by Queena Kim

  Technology entrepreneurs, analysts and journalists are gathering in Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show.

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• Banks near $10 billion foreclosure settlement

  by Eve Troeh

  The nation's major banks are reportedly close to a settlement with federal regulators over abusive foreclosure practices, going back to 2009.

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• After fiscal deal, markets settle into new reality

  by Jeff Horwich

  Immediately following the fiscal agreement, U.S. stocks had their best week in more than a year last week, but will the optimism last?

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• Game on! Claiming victory after NHL lockout ends

  by Jeff Horwich

  The National Hockey League and its players union have come to a deal to end their nearly four-month lockout. A shortened season could begin as soon as next week.

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• PODCAST: A big tuna and two big bank settlements

  by Jeff Horwich

  Two big mortgage-related settlements to fill you in on, plus who sports the worst bruises from the hockey lockout, happy birthday No Child Left Behind, and a big, fat, expensive fish.

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• Rebuilding a life from homelessness

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  Marketplace revisits homeless, single mom Silvia Encinas.

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