Marketplace Scratch Pad

In the real world, where companies are allowed to fail, a big one is about to go down. Not surprisingly, Blockbuster is pretty much toast. It's...

The airlines' checked bag fees have done exactly what you'd expect them to do: Generate revenue and create problems. As we reported this morning,...

Top of the mornin' to ya. In honor of St. Patty's Day, I think we should start with Marketplace's own resident Irishman and his latest Whiteboard...

It's become almost taboo to complain about your job, since you know, you're lucky to have one. That doesn't mean people who were unhappy at work...

The TARP watchdog, Neil Barofsky, warned us a year ago that the $700 billion program was ripe for fraud: "History teaches us that an outlay of so...

The Toyota acceleration fiasco is starting to remind me of alien abduction stories. Like tales of failing car parts, spaceship stories seem to...

Good morning. Where were regulators while Lehman was doing its accounting tricks? They were staring right at it. Plus, economists debate the...

It took a long while, but Congress has a completed financial regulation bill on the table. It falls short of a few of the original proposals, but...

Can you sum up your experience with the recession in about 10 words or less? Give it a try. It's a good mental exercise....

What did the year 1985 give us? Let's see -- the Miami Vice theme, New Coke and the marriage of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley. So perhaps it's...