Fannie Mae CEO reflects on housing 10 years after the financial crisisBy Kai Ryssdal and Bridget BodnarJanuary 25, 2018Mark Wilson / Getty ImagesTimothy Mayopoulos joined Fannie Mae a few months after it was taken over by the government. Today, he's the CEO.POSTED IN: Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Housing conservatorship financial crisis ListenreadDownloadDownload
Tick, tockBy Kai RyssdalJanuary 20, 2018Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty ImagesTime is running out to avert a government shutdown.POSTED IN: Economy business Congress stopgaps government shutdown debt ceiling Trump markets global markets ListenreadDownloadDownload
Foreclosure rate is the lowest since 2005, report saysBy Mitchell HartmanJanuary 18, 2018POSTED IN: Economy foreclosures attom Housing housing crisis lenders ListenreadDownloadDownload
Not everybody should own a home, and what housing of the future should look likeBy Kai Ryssdal and Bridget BodnarJanuary 17, 2018Tim Mayopoulos, Fannie Mae's CEO, talks about the early days of the financial crisis and its lingering effects.POSTED IN: Divided Decade affordable housing housing crisis financial crisis ListenreadDownloadDownload
GE reckons with a large debt from an old businessBy Andy UhlerJanuary 16, 2018POSTED IN: business General Electric GE debt multinational companies corporate earnings ListenreadDownloadDownload
Debt burden a worry for many AmericansBy Andy UhlerJanuary 12, 2018POSTED IN: Economy Credit Cards credit card debt consumer debt ListenreadDownloadDownload
How businesses in Puerto Rico are recovering after MariaBy Lizzie O'LearyDecember 18, 2017Joanne Griffith/Marketplace"It's basically been a lot of effort to try and stay on my feet."POSTED IN: Economy Puerto Rico debt crisis business water ListenreadDownloadDownload
A drugmaker used “The Wizard of Oz” to sell OxyContinBy Tony WagnerDecember 15, 2017CBS via Wikimedia CommonsIn an internal sales document, Purdue told sales reps to “follow the yellow brick road” and get doctors to prescribe the opioid.POSTED IN: uncertainhours2 blog Opioid opioid crisis read
S02-4: The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisisBy Caitlin Esch and Krissy ClarkDecember 13, 2017Joanna Neborsky/MarketplaceIt's a highly misleading claim. It came with every bottle of Oxycontin for years. The FDA signed off on it, but it’s not clear who wrote it.POSTED IN: uncertainhours2 opioids oxycontin overdose addiction opioid crisis opioid epidemic drugs healthcare Health pharmaceuticals big pharma Purdue Pharma investigation ListenreadDownloadDownload