I just spent a few days in Napa Valley, so I have wine on the brain (or should I say in the brain?). Either way, here are some things I learned in…

Good morning. Back from a couple days of R and R, which I'll tell you a bit about shortly. Thanks to Paddy Hirsch for filling in. This morning,…

Actress Aisha Tyler (24, CSI, Friends etc., etc.) joined us at the Marketplace Whiteboard yesterday. She came by because she wanted to discuss a…

What does it mean? What's 8 11? Is that a date? Is that supposed to be 23 or 230? Is that an electrical socket or a smiley face? Or both? It's G…

Our weekly podcast, After the Bell, is now available. Bob Moon's been looking back at this week's news, and he has the feeling that the government…

Felix Salmon has a new rallying cry: three cheers for short-sellers. He argues that short sellers generally protect investors. No doubt Felix's …

A $1.8 billion profit at AIG. A $1.7 billion loss at Royal Bank of Scotland. The White House backs off the Fan and Fred "bad bank" idea. More job…

By now everyone in the known world is aware that Twitter had a two-hour outage this morning. Marketplace tweets, as does the Whiteboard, but when…

If you think banks, auto finance and mortgage companies are usurious, try borrowing on the street in Machester, England. John Kiely, a 36 year-ol…

Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn lets it all hang out in a New York Times story today. "Our risk appetite continues to grow year on year, qu…