Jun 28, 2010

Marketplace for Monday, June 28, 2010

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Court says oversight board stays

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

The Supreme Court issued a decision today on Free Fund Enterprise v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which upheld the constitutionality of the PCAOB, but adds greater oversight to the board as well. Brett Neely reports.

White House wants more bandwidth

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

The White House announced a plan today to free up to 500 megahertz of spectrum over the next 10 years to accommodate the increasing demand for wireless technology.

Financial Reform Bill

Major players studying financial reform bill

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

Congress's financial regulation bill will be up for vote soon, bankers, lawyers, consultants and regulators are reading the 4,000-page bill to see how it could affect them.

FDA wants to limit antibiotics in meat

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

The Food and Drug Administration released draft regulations intended to limit antibiotic use in meat-producing animals to prevent outbreaks of drug-resistant viruses.

Summer Reading Book Series 2010

Summer Reading: Betsey Stevenson

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

Economist Betsey Stevenson shares what she'll be reading this summer on the beach.

Fallout: The Financial Crisis

A Toronto G-20 summit review

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

Tess Vigeland reviews the Toronto G-20 summit, which wrapped up yesterday, with Marketplace's London bureau chief Stephen Beard, particularly if the summit helped bridge disagreements between Europe and the U.S.

Afghani officials smuggling U.S. money?

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

According to the Wall Street Journal, billions of dollars -- allegedly tax payers' money -- are being air lifted out of Afghanistan, in the latest of a string of corruption reports from the country. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

BP Spill: Ripples

Lessons of oil spills past not learned

by Marketplace Staff

Jun 28, 2010

The Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969 was nowhere as vast the current BP oil spill in the Gulf, but it did stir up environmentalists, the federal government and the oil industry to make things safer -- unfortunately, not all of that attitude made it through the years.