Marketplace Morning Report for Wednesday, July 3, 2013

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• Chinese law requires adults to visit their aging parents

  by Rob Schmitz

  Critics say the new law is unnecessary. They suspect China's state pension fund is running low on money and the government is passing the buck.

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• Bitcoin entrepreneurs barrel ahead despite legal clouds

  A crop of start ups with venture capital backing are trying to make Bitcoin more mainstream and easy to trade.

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• Yelp Worldmap: Testing the correlation between hipsters and money

  by Katie Long

  Yelp has created heat maps showing the geographical density for search terms 'hipster,' 'pricey,' and more. Here's our (unscientific) look at the correlation between hipsters and money.

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• What makes one college a ‘best buy’ compared with others?

  by David Weinberg

  The latest "Fiske Guide to Colleges," includes a special list of colleges with relatively low cost and high quality academics.

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• Federal cuts threaten healthcare fraud investigations

  by Sarah McCammon

  Staffing cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services mean fewer cases of Medicare, Medicaid fraud are investigated.

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• Affordable Care Act mandate delayed: Who wins, who loses?

  by Scott Tong

  Pick your headline: Bigger companies get another year to arrange health insurance, or Many employees have to wait another year to get health insurance.

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• Portugal on verge of collapse, euro crisis flares

  by Alison Roberts

  Europe's financial crisis flared anew on Wednesday, after Portugal's finance minister quit and the government teetered on the edge of collapse.

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• Breaking away from the stock market masses

  by Allan Sloan

  In the years climbing out of the great recession, regular investors were leary of buying stock, thrice burned, enduringly shy. But in the last six months, as the S&P 500 index has gone up 13 percent, the masses are back to buying.

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• Layoffs hit financial sector in June

  by David Brancaccio

  John Challenger, CEO of outplacement firm Challenger Grey & Christmas, discusses which sectors are going strong and which are cutting back.

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• PODCAST: Bitcoin hits Wall Street

  by David Brancaccio

  Affordable Care Act mandate gets delayed: Who wins, who loses? Layoffs hit the financial sector in June. And Bitcoin attracts Wall Street.

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