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Checking in on the bailout package
Oct 27, 2008
Three weeks after the $700 billion bailout package seems a good time to find out how it's going. To chat about the bailout and who's lining up to get their share, Kai Ryssdal called economist Doug Elmendorf at the Brookings Institution.
The end of indexing?
Oct 31, 2008
Question: Chris, My wife and I have been following your advice (and the advice of many others) for retirement investing for years. We have about 15...
Artificial intelligence getting very real
Nov 6, 2008
What if computers became smarter than us? Yes, we know, you already saw that movie. But what if? Kai Ryssdal poses the question to Richard Dooling, author of "Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ"
Indian-Americans gaining political clout
Sep 26, 2008
As Indian-Americans are gaining political power in the United States, their monetary contributions and organizational strength are growing in influence as well. Aswini Anburajan reports.
Stop swinging the outrage pendulum
Jun 25, 2008
Big government and big business are often in a power struggle over the market, and Americans swing between outrage at one or the other. But commentator Robert Reich says both are necessary parts of a modern economy.
Miami luring tourists from S. America
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Dan Grech
Sep 5, 2008
Miami saw a drop in tourism during the first half of this year and wants the tourists back. A travel show this weekend turns south -- way south -- to bring a wave of visitors to the beaches and shopping malls.
Health-care reform needs government
Sep 4, 2008
Commentator and economist Glenn Hubbard says Republicans are wrong to think that health-care reform isn't going to mean some kind of government involvement.
Germany facing economic woes, too
Aug 27, 2008
Germans' confidence in their economy -- Europe's largest -- has plummeted with second-quarter performance actually shrinking. What could be the impact on Europe and the U.S.? Stephen Beard reports.
U.S. winemakers toast to a strong euro
Jun 9, 2008
As the euro drives up the prices of international wines, U.S. vineyards are seeing a bump in sales. Jeremy Hobson reports.
More Thoughts on Today
Sep 15, 2008
George Magnus, senior economic adviser at UBS Investment Bank in London has been one of the more accurate observers of the ongoing credit crunch....