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Clean energy could mean tax breaks
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Sam Eaton
May 21, 2008
Congress votes today on a bill that would renew billions of dollars in tax breaks for clean energy. Sam Eaton reports the money is needed, despite a record amount of investments from the private sector.
Most retailers still struggling
by
Jeff Tyler
May 21, 2008
A slow economy means a drop in retail sales. Jeff Tyler reports consumers are putting off buying that extra blouse or sport jacket if they can, but shoppers at high-end stores will help that market do slightly better.
Sorting out the rubbish in Naples
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Scott Jagow
May 21, 2008
Italian Prime Minister Silvia Berlusconi is holding a cabinet meeting in Naples to show concern for the garbage problem. Scott Jagow talks to reporter Megan Williams about what he can do to help the problem.
Man has a hand in natural disasters
May 21, 2008
China and Myanmar's death tolls from disasters continue to rise, thanks partially to a lack of shelter. Will Wilkinson says the poverty that exposes people to nature's dangers requires a human hand.
Bad triple-A was mislabelled risk
May 21, 2008
We're starting to get a better explanation of why banks invested in those atrocious mortgage-backed securities. Stephen Beard reports a glitch with triple-A ratings could have been partially responsible.
A few moments of ZENN
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Kai Ryssdal
May 20, 2008
Automotive writer Dan Neil and Kai Ryssdal go for a quiet spin around downtown L.A. in one of the newest electric automobiles, the ZENN (Zero Emissions No Noise).
Empty homes, ruined neighborhoods
May 20, 2008
Lenders are selling off thousands of houses they've foreclosed on for pennies on the dollar. And now the neighborhoods where those homes are located are crumbling. Mhari Saito reports from Cleveland.
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Seeing the world through a realist lens
May 20, 2008
This week we're asking three future economists a simple question. Why take up a discipline that's been called the dismal science? For Andra Ghent it's because in a world full of idealists, economists are the hard-boiled truth-tellers.
Cell-phone sales quiet down a bit
May 20, 2008
Cell-phone sales have fallen for the first time in a couple of years. The number of new customers signing up has taken a double-digit dive, too. Market saturation is one reason. The slowing economy is another. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.
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McCain, GOP have a cash-flow problem
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Kai Ryssdal
May 20, 2008
John McCain and the Republican Party are going to take on the eventual Democratic winner with a lot less cash than the GOP is used to. Politico writer Jeanne Cummings shares the details with Kai Ryssdal.