Marketplace Morning Report for Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Segments From This Episode

• Assessing Colorado’s long-term flood damage

  by David Weinberg

  Colorado farmers rarely complain about rain, but a lot of them got flooded out by the latest storms.

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• UN has made progress, but more work needs to be done to meet 2015 goals

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  What more needs to be done to tackle the UN's Millennium Development Goals?

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• Chrysler’s largest stakeholder upset after Union push for IPO

  by David Brancaccio

  You haven't been able to buy Chrysler stock since the 2009 bankruptcy. That could change.

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• Russia sells stake in maker of AK-47 rifle

  by David Brancaccio

  The Kremlin is set to privatize a stake in one of its most well-known brands.

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• Will China’s new ‘free trade zone’ live up to the hype?

  by Rob Schmitz

  This week, the Chinese government will open the country's first 'free trade zone' in Shanghai.

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• California cheese creates a problem for California dairies

  by Rachel Dornhelm

  California's pricing system for milk gives cheese makers the lowest price for milk — a holdover from the Depression era, when making cheese was a way to use up surplus milk. But now cheese makers are dairies' biggest customers, and still get the low price.

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• PODCAST: AK-47 rifle now in private investor hands

  by David Brancaccio

  Fiat, Chrysler's largest stakeholder, is upset after Union push for IPO. Russia sells stake in maker of AK-47 rifle. And why California's dairy farmers and cheese producers aren't seeing eye-to-eye.

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