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Mar 1, 2016

Marketplace for Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Yahoo is reassessing the “goodwill value” of Tumblr; a look at the link between superdelegates and campaign contributions; and why people in Japan are buying bonds with a negative yield.

Marketplace for Tuesday, March 1, 2016 — OMAR TORRES/AFP/Getty Images

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Segments From This Episode

A $25 billion bet on changing how we work and play
by Mark Garrison
Courtesy Related-Oxford
A giant real-estate project in New York makes a risky bet on a reimagined future
$3 billion worth of cancer drugs will be trashed this year
by Molly Wood and Dan Gorenstein
A new study from BMJ blames, in part, bad packaging.
Why buy bonds with a negative yield?
by Tracey Samuelson
Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
Japan now has 10-year government bonds with a negative yield. Investors want them.
The power of superdelegates and campaign contributions
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Democratic superdelegates can bring in the campaign contributions.
What the heck is goodwill, anyway?
Mario Tama/Getty Images
And why is Yahoo writing off such a huge hunk of its Tumblr acquisition?
We’re a little too willing to take orders from robots
by Molly Wood
Rob Felt/Georgia Tech
A new experiment showed people had no problem doing what robots told them to do
Robots, data, and the industries of the future
by Molly Wood
Soon, you may have your own personal C-3PO

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Yahoo is reassessing the “goodwill value” of Tumblr; a look at the link between superdelegates and campaign contributions; and why people in Japan are buying bonds with a negative yield.