Marketplace for Friday, June 14, 2013

Segments From This Episode

• By the Numbers: Consumed Day 5

  by Mary Dooe

  This is a Marketplace.org Reader

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• Who owns the happy birthday song?

  by Mitchell Hartman

  Documentary filmmaker Jennifer Nelson is challenging the copyright to the happy birthday song after being asked to pay $1,500 to Warner Music to use the tune in her film.

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• Economic value check: How much is enough?

  by Adriene Hill and David Weinberg

  Can we afford the consumer economy? Yes, but there are costs. And not all of them have dollar signs attached. Let's talk about values.

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• Do rising rates mean an improving economy?

  by Kai Ryssdal

  The ten-year T-note is above two percent, but some are concerned this might mean the end of quantitative easing in the near future.

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• Silicon Valley feels the surveillance heat

  by Queena Kim

  Revelations that some tech companies have been turning over our data to the government — however reluctantly — has put Silicon Valley under a microscope.

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• Britain under pressure over tax havens

  Britain is coning under pressure to rein in its overseas territories in the Caribbean which many say are a base for tax evasion and storing illicit profits.

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