President Obama held his first prime-time press conference tonight, making the case for his massive stimulus package. Kai Ryssdal speaks with our Washington bureau chief John Dimsdale about the campaigning the president is doing to sell his plan to Congress.
Securitizing debt is a key part of the credit markets, which are in trouble right now. Kai Ryssdal speaks with our senior business correspondent Bob Moon, who is at a securitization conference, about the state of the industry.
In this economic climate, more consumers are negotiating with companies to lower prices on goods they would have never considered bargaining for before — from cable prices to high speed Internet to rent. Joel Rose reports.
The head of the International Monetary Fund says the world's advanced economies are in a depression. Dan Grech breaks down what exactly a depression means and whether we are in one.
The House and Senate stimulus bills are about the same size, but they vary widely in the things they would do to the economy. Meanwhile, President Obama kept up the pressure for an agreement. John Dimsdale reports.
The Treasury Department is set to unveil a multibillion-dollar program to strengthen the housing market. Steve Henn explores some of the ways the new program could work.
The idea of the government creating a 'bad bank' to buy up toxic assets faces a major hurdle — how to finance it. To solve the problem, the government may partner with the private sector to get the bad stuff off the banks' balance sheets. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
Bank executives will be testifying to Congress about how money was spent last year under TARP. But getting execs to explain the flow of cash may be hard, since no one was keeping track. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
President Obama is in Elkhart, Ind. today selling his stimulus package directly to the people. Steve Chiotakis talks to Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson about why Obama is there specifically and what he hopes to do.
Tess Vigeland brings back three personal finance bloggers she talked to last fall to hear how they and their followers are now faring as economic conditions have worsened.
