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Jun 13, 2016

Marketplace for Monday, June 13, 2016

How businesses who sell guns are reacting to the Orlando mass shooting and other shootings in the past; a look at the private-security market; and introducing our series “The Price of Profits,” what happens when profits become a company’s product.

Guns for sale at a Wal-Mart, July 19, 2000.
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Segments From This Episode

Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the dark side of capitalism
by Kai Ryssdal
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
Investors' demands for more profits left patients with the choice to pay up or die.
How do gun retailers like Wal-Mart react to mass shootings?
by Kai Ryssdal
Getty Images / Staff
A look at America’s gun economy
Will Orlando change security where we work and play?
by Mark Garrison
U.S. private sector security spending is already around $400 billion a year.
There are more places to buy guns in the United States than there are Starbucks worldwide
by Kai Ryssdal
Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Back to the beginning of the program: gun violence… In which I repeat myself from our broadcast of Dec. 14 2012, the day of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary. I noted that day in our search for some way to quantify what had happened, that there were then more places to buy a firearm in this country than there […]
IBM: when corporations took care of their employees
by Dan Bobkoff
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IBM had a policy of full employment and went without layoffs for seven decades.

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Marketplace for Monday, June 13, 2016

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Segments From This Episode

Valeant Pharmaceuticals and the dark side of capitalism

How do gun retailers like Wal-Mart react to mass shootings?

Will Orlando change security where we work and play?

There are more places to buy guns in the United States than there are Starbucks worldwide

IBM: when corporations took care of their employees

Music from the episode