Marketplace Morning Report for Monday, December 19, 2016

Segments From This Episode

• Italy looks to China to preserve Roman heritage

  

  Cash-strapped Italy hopes Chinese investors will help pay for upkeep.

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• Report finds wealth gap continues into retirement

  by Mitchell Hartman

  

  We hear a lot about the income gap between top executives and workers, and it turns out that gap continues after retirement, too. The Institute for Policy Studies reports the 100 CEOs with the biggest retirement plans each have anywhere from $25 million to nearly $1 billion set aside by their employers in individual pension […]

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• The trinket transition

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  

  A store-shelf view of the presidential transition.

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• Venezuela overturns 100-bolivar banknote ban

  by David Brancaccio

  A decline in undergraduate enrollment, a banning of the 100-bolivar banknote, the effect of presidential transitions on souvenir shops, and the outcome of the IMF chief's payout trial.

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• For-profit colleges lead downward trend in undergraduate enrollment

  by Kimberly Adams

  

  A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows enrollment is down 1.4 percent since last fall. For-profit institutions were hit the hardest, with enrollment down 14.5 percent. Experts say that’s partly to do with the big players in the industry — ITT Tech and Corinthian — closing their doors, but it also […]

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