The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. Are reports of the end of stimulus misleading? Plus, Twitter is not growing users fast enough. How can the social network make itself essential to the masses and investors?
Segments From this episode
Want the best price online? Good luck with that.
by Dan Weissmann
Oct 27, 2014
It's tough to detect or beat systems that show you "personalized" prices for products
A holiday rush at ports piles up cargo
by Sarah Gardner
Oct 28, 2014
The bottleneck could delay shipments with a strict yuletide deadline.
The 21-year-old who owns a factory in China
by Kai Ryssdal
Oct 28, 2014
Alex Shlaferman founded his multi-million-dollar company at the age of 16
What the end of Quantitative Easing will and won't mean
by Tracey Samuelson
Oct 28, 2014
The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow and many are expecting it to announce an end to the bond-buying program of the past six years. What has been the effect of quantitative easing? And are reports of the end of stimulus misleading?
Final Note
CNN takes the Empire State Building
by Marketplace Staff
Oct 28, 2014
If you want to know who's ahead, just look up.
Should Twitter have to measure up to Facebook?
by David Weinberg
Oct 28, 2014
Twitter takes a hit because of slow growth in what counts to investors: users.
Michael Lewis: Wall Street is "lost"
by Marketplace Staff
Oct 28, 2014
Twenty-five years after "Liar's Poker," Wall Street is more secretive and less powerful