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  • Mar 24, 2017

    Why hiring a new CEO can be really difficult

    The world’s biggest entertainment company is taking a little more time to choose a new CEO. Disney announced it will extend the contract for CEO Robert Iger for another year, until 2019. This is the third time Disney has extended Iger’s contract. He was originally supposed to retire in 2015, but Disney keeps convincing him […]

  • Mar 24, 2017

    What people get wrong when they talk about NAFTA

    Employees work in a manufacturing business in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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    Economist Marc Melitz says there are common misunderstandings about NAFTA.

  • Mar 24, 2017

    Weekly Wrap: Health care bill falls apart. Now what?

    President Donald Trump asked Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to withdraw the Republican health care bill moments before a vote.
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    Leigh Gallagher of Fortune and Sudeep Reddy of Politico join us to discuss the week’s business and economic news. This week, they talk about the GOP’s health care bill falling apart and what comes next now that President Donald Trump shifts focus on tax reform.   

  • Mar 24, 2017

    ‘Frozen’ got the new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ made

    Dan Stevens is the beast and Emma Watson is Belle in Disney's live-action film.
    Disney

    The remake is smashing box-office records, but it started as something very different.

  • Mar 24, 2017

    When it comes to NAFTA and autos, the parts are well traveled

    In the early NAFTA days of the 1990s, U.S. automakers were getting out of the business of parts-making. Over the next two decades, the supply chain exploded in every direction.
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    The identity of your vehicle would be best described as a multicultural collaboration.

  • Mar 24, 2017

    My Economy: Caring for seniors through art

     
    GEORGES GOBET/AFP/Getty Images

    Many of the caregivers in nursing homes can't afford health insurance, Martha Rast says.

  • Mar 24, 2017

    Why Silicon Valley isn’t doing enough about gender equality

    If inequality isn't fixed, "Women get shut out of one of the most exciting, attractive fields to work in," Liza Mundy says.
    GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

    The tech industry is 'awful' to women, journalist and author Liza Mundy says.

  • Mar 23, 2017

    Conservatives want the government to stop mandating what insurers must cover

    The latest carrot that House leadership and the White House are using to win conservative Republican votes for the health care bill is repealing an Obamacare provision that standardized insurance policies. Under Obamacare, virtually all insurance policies cover things like hospitalization, mental health, prescription drugs and pregnancies – known as essential health benefits. But guaranteeing those […]

  • Mar 23, 2017

    As farmworkers grow scarce, wages are on the rise

    California farmers face such tight labor pools that some are replacing grapes with almonds, which require much less human labor.
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    But that's not attracting native-born American laborers to the fields yet, L.A. Times reporter says.

  • Mar 23, 2017

    Companies are pulling ads from YouTube to protect their brands

    Multiple U.S. companies are pulling their ads from YouTube over offensive material. AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson’s decision follows other companies here and abroad that will stop advertising until Google can guarantee their ads won’t run before videos containing hate speech. Google says it’s committed to working on a resolution, but there are technological […]