Melissa Kaplan
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Energy Department doesn't have the energy to save energy
Jul 8, 2010
From the department of not practicing what you preach: The New York Times reports the Energy Department has yet to advance on installing much of...
Playlist: Turn Around Those Dreary Doubts
Jul 7, 2010
Posted by Melissa Kaplan
For Marketplace Morning Report, July 7, 2010
Between NASA's space shuttle layoffs, China's major agricultural bank mov...
Italian firewalk empowerment seminar backfires on participants' feet
Jul 7, 2010
As far as empowerment practices go, walking on burning hot coals is pretty hardcore. But if you want to walk through fire and not get burned, you...
Playlist: Changes Take Their Places
Jul 6, 2010
Posted by Melissa Kaplan
For Marketplace Morning Report, July 6, 2010
Decision-makers the world over made some moves; the U.K. was drawing up a...
A library can do well as a drive-thru
Jul 6, 2010
Blame librarian ingenuity; as attendance as begun to fall in public libraries, our literary guardians have been finding creative ways to get the...
Playlist: Take Action. Now!
Jul 5, 2010
Posted by Melissa Kaplan
For Marketplace Morning Report, July 5, 2010
BP was looking for a white knight, strikers in India were looking for rel...
Playlist: The Great Escapist
Jul 2, 2010
Posted by Melissa Kaplan
For Marketplace Morning Report, July 2, 2010
It was the end of a week with a lot of really bad headlines, so we went e...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Happy July. Lots of data today. Most of it sad.
Jul 1, 2010
The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...
10 percent federal tax on tanning starts today
Jul 1, 2010
If you thought a day at the tanning salon was already taxing, now the federal government is getting involved. Today begins a 10 percent tax on...
Study: Everyone in the world relates money to happiness
Jul 1, 2010
You may think the deep psychological link between money and the pursuit of happiness is strictly the burden of a free-market society, but it turns...