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Halloween
Super PACs aim to spook voters with Halloween ads
Oct 31, 2012
Negative ads with a Halloween twist hit the airwaves
Making a business out of making fangs
Oct 31, 2012
Sebastiaan Van Houten, who works at a the Halloween Adventure store in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood talks about his job as a self-described "fang-smith" -- he crafts custom-made prosthetic fangs.
Is your Halloween costume racist?
Oct 30, 2012
This is a free country, so you can dress up like anything you want for Halloween. But some costumes play on negative stereotypes.
The economics of ghost hunting
Oct 26, 2012
People are spending real money to experience the paranormal.
Daniel Huebbe
Mid-day Extra: This year's most popular Halloween costumes
Oct 31, 2011
What were the most popular Halloween costumes this year around the U.S.?
San Francisco tops trick-or-treat rankings
by
Paddy Hirsch
Oct 21, 2011
Zillow has released its list of the top 20 trick-or-treat destinations in the US.
Top of the charts: San Francisco. The city scored highest on w...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Shipping threats and TSA regulations
Nov 1, 2010
Following Friday's mail-bomb scare in London, shipping and cargo industries respond to the idea of new threats. How will these changes affect...
For public good, not for profit.
MIDDAY UPDATE: Sustainable jobs and cell phones
Oct 27, 2010
This week on Marketplace we'll be following sustainable jobs. Today, we learned about the fastest growing industry in the job field: biomedical...
Dressing up for the crisis
by
Richard Core
Oct 30, 2008
On today's Marketplace, Mitchell Hartman reports on how Halloween revelers are seizing on the financial crisis for their costume and party themes...