Marketplace Morning Report for Friday, January 10, 2014

Segments From This Episode

• A Texas safari club’s solution to saving the rhinos? Kill one.

  by Matthew Davies

  The Safari Club of Dallas, Texas wants to auction off the right to shoot an endangered black rhinoceros… for conservation purposes.

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• Job growth way below estimates in December; unemployment at 6.7 percent

  by David Brancaccio

  The U.S. economy added only 74,000 jobs in December, way below most economists' predictions. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.7 percent.

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• If the unemployment rate drops below 7 percent…

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  The unemployment number has to fall further for the Fed to feel it's safe to start withdrawing extraordinary support from the economy.

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• The economics of the ‘swag bag’

  by Noel King

  

  Small business owners vie to get their products into Golden Globes goodie bags.

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• Tom Vilsack: Polar vortex relief ‘won’t happen until we have a farm bill’

  by David Brancaccio

  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks polar vortex, the farm bill, and food prices.

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• Attention, Target shoppers: That data breach was worse than you thought

  by Dan Weissmann

  That hack affected 70 million — not 40 million — people.

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• PODCAST: Something rotten in the jobs report

  by David Brancaccio

  The U.S. economy added only 74,000 jobs in December, way below most economists' predictions. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.7 percent. Attention, Target shoppers: That data breach was worse than you thought. And, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack talks polar vortex, the farm bill, and food prices.

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