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MIDDAY UPDATE: Vatican financial transparency, NASA budget woes, and beer baths
Dec 30, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI is working to make the Vatican's financial operations more transparent amid a financial investigation involving its bank. The...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Tax cut deal reached, Citigroup
Dec 7, 2010
President Obama and Congress have reached a truce. Obama agreed to keep the Bush-era tax rates the same for all Americans for two years, and in...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Bernanke defends Fed policy, again; possible bipartisan compromise on tax cuts
Dec 6, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared on the CBS news program "60 Minutes" for the second time since the end of the financial crisis to...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Unemployment hits 9.8 percent; Congress turns down the volume on TV commercials
Dec 3, 2010
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 9.8 percent in November from 9.6 percent, marking the highest jobless rate since April. The Labor Department...
Tax cuts and the World Cup in Russia
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Kai Ryssdal
Dec 2, 2010
Two final notes on the way out today: First, the House passed an extension of the Bush era tax cuts today for couples making less than $250,000....
COICA gets out of committee
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John Moe
Nov 18, 2010
The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed the Combating Online Infringement and Copyright Act. The bill would allow the US Attorney General to go...
The fiscal year is over ... shouldn't we have a federal budget?
by
Bill Radke
Sep 30, 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...
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MID-DAY UPDATE: Congress can't meet a budget deadline -- push it back?
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Bill Radke
Sep 21, 2010
The federal government's budget year ends September 30th - and Congress is nowhere near passing a new budget. What do YOU do when you can't meet a...
Congress passes a bill, before the election!
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Kai Ryssdal
Sep 16, 2010
This final note today. Politics and the economy once again. Forget all that talk you've been hearing about nothing passing Congress 'til after the...
Congress: Please save my Main St. job, not that fat cat's Wall St. job
Sep 24, 2008
I got that call today....