Marketplace Morning Report for Tuesday, September 9, 2014
What will an Apple device you can wear look like? Will it have new Apple mobile payment systems, health care software, or home automation? These are some of the questions that are supposed to get answered today, now that the Cupertino, California, company has drawn the attention of the world's media for its product launch event in a few hours. As for the health of the company behind today's planned razzmatazz? We're joined by Adam Lashinsky, who covers Silicon Valley for Fortune and is the author of the book "Inside Apple," to discuss. Then to West Africa, where a rapper is part of a debate over economic policy. The latest hit by one of Africa's biggest rap artists, Sarkodie, criticizes the president of Ghana for mismanaging the economy. Ghana had become one of the continent's shining lights in recent years. But now the economy has soured with its currency down by about a third against the dollar this year. Ghana has reached out to the International Monetary Fund for help, as foreign investors are concerned about the economic crisis, which Sarkodie the rapper emphasizes is hitting poor people hard.
What will an Apple device you can wear look like? Will it have new Apple mobile payment systems, health care software, or home automation? These are some of the questions that are supposed to get answered today, now that the Cupertino, California, company has drawn the attention of the world’s media for its product launch event in a few hours. As for the health of the company behind today’s planned razzmatazz? We’re joined by Adam Lashinsky, who covers Silicon Valley for Fortune and is the author of the book “Inside Apple,” to discuss. Then to West Africa, where a rapper is part of a debate over economic policy. The latest hit by one of Africa’s biggest rap artists, Sarkodie, criticizes the president of Ghana for mismanaging the economy. Ghana had become one of the continent’s shining lights in recent years. But now the economy has soured with its currency down by about a third against the dollar this year. Ghana has reached out to the International Monetary Fund for help, as foreign investors are concerned about the economic crisis, which Sarkodie the rapper emphasizes is hitting poor people hard.
