Segments From This Episode

• BBC to play anti-Thatcher ‘Ding Dong’ song in countdown

  by Kai Ryssdal

  The "Wizard of Oz" song "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead" has been adopted by anti-Margaret Thatcherites, who urged people in the U.K. to buy the song this week after Thatcher died.

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• What Eli Lilly’s job cuts mean for the future of sales jobs

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Eli Lilly is reducing its U.S. sales force, reportedly by 30 percent. How have digital and other advertising practices changed the nature of sales?

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• Does Amazon favor customers at the expense of shareholders?

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  Some Amazon critics say the company’s razor-thin quarterly profits — if there are any at all — are evidence that CEO Jeff Bezos is running the company like a “charity” for the benefit of customers at the expense of shareholders.

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• The budget and the Bitcoin

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Analyzing the week's news on Wall Street and beyond.

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• DNA sequencing celebrates its first decade

  by Dan Gorenstein

  The anniversary brings with it a new and lucrative era of personalized medicine.

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• North Korea threatens; neighbors remain calm

  by Marketplace Contributor

  Threats by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to launch missiles and beef up his country's nuclear weapons capacity have left the economies of North Korea's regional neighbors largely unaffected, as our BBC partners report.

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• Germans wary of Greeks bearing… reparations demands

  Greeks fed up with their country's economic woes see a quick fix — Germany stumping up more than $200 billion in further reparations for World War II aggression. Germans are unimpressed.

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