Feb 5, 2016

Marketplace Weekend for Friday, February 5, 2016

Author and writer Susan Orlean Vince Bucci / Stringer

This weekend Lizzie O'Leary and Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson go over the latest tech featured in this year's Super Bowl, we take a look at the troubled pension system in Colorado, and author and writer Susan Orlean takes the Marketplace Quiz.

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The Marketplace Quiz

Author Susan Orlean takes the Marketplace Quiz

by Raghu Manavalan

Feb 5, 2016

Susan Orlean fills out our finance-inspired personality questionnaire.

Journalist Susan Orlean during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

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Is Colorado's public employee pension fund in peril?

by Marketplace Contributor

Feb 5, 2016

The fund is short about $26 billion in what it owes to over 500,000 members.

As of 2015, Colorado's pension fund for public employees is not expected to reach solvency for another 30-36 years.

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This weekend Lizzie O’Leary and Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson go over the latest tech featured in this year’s Super Bowl, we take a look at the troubled pension system in Colorado, and author and writer Susan Orlean takes the Marketplace Quiz.