Detroit automakers say they need help before they crash. Kai Ryssdal talks about the rest of the industry with Micheline Maynard of The New York Times.
In Mexico, the peso has plunged, unemployment is rising and foreign investors started pulling money out last month — all fallout from the economic crisis in the U.S. Dan Grech reports from Mexico.
A big problem with the bad mortgages banks are holding is that nobody knows what they're worth. But for one Denver entrepreneur that situation spells opportunity. New York Bureau Chief Amy Scott reports.
Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics at Duke University, caught sight of his personal portfolio recently. In our latest "Here's what I'm doing," he tells how he's vowed not to do that again.
As awful as this financial crisis is, at least inflation's been kept at bay. Kai Ryssdal talks with Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson about a time when that wasn't the case.
After Citigroup finishes making the 52,000 job cuts just announced, the nation's second largest bank will have shrunk by 20% this year. Jeremy Hobson looks at the company's remaining options.
Is it really so bad that consumer confidence continues to erode? Commentator Amity Shlaes says that if consumers aren't spending, then they're saving, investing or beefing up that college fund, and that can be a good thing.
