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  • Gather 'round, my cell phone has formed a band and would like to play ringtones for you. Dee dee dee dah dah dah dum dum dum. Sorry, now I need…

  • Oct 16, 2009

    Just a minute

    I've been doing the podcast, so pardon me not writing you…

  • Oct 16, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. Let's start the day this way:…

  • The level of public outrage over Wall Street's shenanigans has not abated. In fact today, Gawker announced the Goldman Sachs Project, asking…

  • Sticking with the housing market, here's the story of a young first-time home buyer. And I mean young. She bought a foreclosed home about a month…

  • We're having a major earthquake drill here in California today, and coincidentally, last night I dreamt I was in an earthquake, so I'm feeling a…

  • Oct 15, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. Since the Dow starts the day at 10,000, I think we'll start with that as well:…

  • Oct 15, 2009

    What are the odds?

    Tonight on Marketplace, we'll be talking to the founder of a new website called the Book of Odds. What are the chances you've ever eaten cold…

  • Oct 14, 2009

    What the puck?

    I plopped down on the couch yesterday to watch a good ole hockey game, only to discover that it wasn't on because Directv and the Versus network…

  • Oct 14, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Good morning. Today, thoughts on the panic over the dollar, how to pick jurors for a Wall Street trial and Capitalism… An Apathy Story:…