Mar 29, 2011

Marketplace for March 19, 2011

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Food and Drink

Avoiding recalls by tracking food from seed to supermarket

by Jennifer Collins

Mar 29, 2011

A new food safety law that requires stores, growers, and distributors to be able to trace every stop in the supply chain is creating a whole new business.

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GOP unveils eight Fannie and Freddie reform bills

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

Mar 29, 2011

The overall aim is to make Fannie- and Freddie-backed mortgages a lot more expensive to bring private firms back into the market.

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Amazon opens music locker in the cloud

by Bob Moon

Mar 29, 2011

Amazon.com's new service lets customers store songs on the company's servers and play them on devices running Google's Android software. Amazon beat Apple and Google to the punch, but the company could face legal trouble from the music industry.

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Shelf Life

Using peer pressure for good

by Marketplace Staff

Mar 29, 2011

Tina Rosenberg, author of "Join the Club," discusses how peer pressure can be used effectively for social campaigns.

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SEC to watch hedge funds that beat the market

by Marketplace Staff

Mar 29, 2011

The Madoff fraud raised awareness that doing too well for too long can be a tip-off that something's not right.

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Beer giant buys a craft brewery

by Alisa Roth

Mar 29, 2011

Anheuser-Busch will expand Goose Island, a Chicago craft brewery, but also try to keep its identity.

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Military intervention in Libya

Coalition forces meet to talk about next steps for Libya

by Marketplace Staff

Mar 29, 2011

Europe correspondent Stephen Beard discusses what happened at the Libya conference in London and who might end up paying the tab for rebuilding the North African nation once the violence stops.