Segments From This Episode

• Want the best price online? Good luck with that.

  by Dan Weissmann

  It's tough to detect or beat systems that show you "personalized" prices for products

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• A holiday rush at ports piles up cargo

  by Sarah Gardner

  The bottleneck could delay shipments with a strict yuletide deadline.

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• The 21-year-old who owns a factory in China

  by Kai Ryssdal

  Alex Shlaferman founded his multi-million-dollar company at the age of 16

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• What the end of Quantitative Easing will and won’t mean

  by Tracey Samuelson

  The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. What has been the effect of quantitative easing? And are reports of the end of stimulus misleading?

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• CNN takes the Empire State Building

  by Marketplace Staff

  If you want to know who's ahead, just look up.

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• Should Twitter have to measure up to Facebook?

  by David Weinberg

  Twitter takes a hit because of slow growth in what counts to investors: users.

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• Michael Lewis: Wall Street is "lost"

  by Marketplace Staff

  Twenty-five years after "Liar's Poker," Wall Street is more secretive and less powerful

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• Haunted houses make scary money

  by Lauren Silverman

  More than one in five Americans plans to visit a spooky attraction this year.

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