Segments From This Episode

• Forget high stakes testing, what about high stakes attendance?

  by Dan Weissmann

  Schools in about a dozen states do their annual census of students. At stake is government funding.

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• Health exchanges go live, but will the young and healthy sign up?

  by Dan Gorenstein

  The success of the new health care law relies heavily on its ability to attract young, healthy people — something that may be a tough sell.

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• While you slept, the government stopped

  by David Gura

  Congress did not strike a deal last night on a spending bill, which means a government shutdown is now in effect.

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• Japan will increase its national sales tax by 3 percent

  by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

  Japan is hiking its national sales tax, from 5 percent all the way to 8 percent.

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• Spain wants to move back an hour to help pull its economy out of recession

  Spain is hoping a little time travel will help its economic woes, but will it work?

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• Turns out a shutdown is a great time for politicians to raise money

  by David Gura

  There's no shutting down Washington's endless chase for cash.

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• Market reaction to shutdown is muted today, but won’t stay that way for long

  by Juli Niemann

  But failure by Congress to raise the debt ceiling would get a much stronger reaction than we're seeing this morning.

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• PODCAST: Government shutdown is bad right? So how are politicians capitalizing on it?

  by Mark Garrison

  Government shutdown has investors worried. But turns out, it's a great time for politicians to raise some cash. And Japan will be raising its national sales tax by 3 percent.

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