Marketplace's Tess Vigeland wraps up her "Road to Ruin?" trip in St. Louis, where she sits in with a group of high school students as they learn about the economic crisis.
Marketplace's Tess Vigeland and Amy Scott have been traveling across the country getting reactions to the financial crisis. Together in St. Louis, they share what they found with host Scott Jagow.
Kai Ryssdal finds a credit-crisis snapshot in St. Louis, where developers worry about getting loans for their projects and a restaurant owner hears customers stories of lost jobs and homes.
Panicky stockholders are pulling cash out of the market at a dizzying pace. But where is all that money going? Mattresses? Gold mines? But seriously, where? Ashley Milne-Tyte went looking.
Is there an end to these financial disasters? To get an answer, Rico Gagliano and the Marketplace Players went to the future and brought back tape of a Marketplace broadcast 25 years from now.
The IMF says rising food and energy prices are taking a heavy toll on some developing nations. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports financial ministers will have struggling countries on the agenda this weekend.
President Bush addressed press from the Rose Garden of the White House, listing steps the government has taken to resolve the financial crisis. The statement was intended to calm down the markets. Jeremy Hobson reports.
Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland is wrapping up her "Road to Ruin?" trip in St. Louis. She says a high school economics class has given her hope the next generation may learn from the current crisis.
Governments worldwide are making strides to stop the financial crisis from escalating any further. But money manager Bill Fleckenstein told Bill Radke why he doesn't have much confidence the moves will help.
The government is weighing a plan to insure all of the nation's bank deposits. Previously, depositors were insured for up to $100,000, but lawmakers may remove the limits altogether. Jeremy Hobson reports.
