Feb 5, 2016

Marketplace Weekend for Friday, February 5, 2016

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.