Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Has housing market still not hit bottom?
Home prices rose for a third straight month in August. But despite stabilizing signs, a growing number of experts are skeptical that the crashing housing market might finally have hit the bottom. Bob Moon reports.
Web site to show out-of-network costs
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has announced the development of a database and Web site that will allow consumers using doctors outside their insurers' networks to compare rates. Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
Taxes picking up tab for Amtrak losses
A Pew study released today finds that the average government subsidy on an Amtrak ticket is $32. That's four times higher than the subsidy figure Amtrak has come up with. Mitchell Hartman reports.
AARP shares position on health reform
AARP lends its name to insurance polices that it brokers and nets millions of dollars from -- and it also supports health care reform. Kai Ryssdal talks to professor James Thurber about whether or not this demonstrates a conflict of interest.
Climate change in our own backyards
Marketplace sustainability reporters Sam Eaton and Sarah Gardner discuss the radical changes Americans are seeing to their surroundings as temperatures rise from global warming.
Kai Ryssdal's final note
Courtesy of Advertising Age, which you'd figure would be keeping track of these things. Journey back in Internet time with me to October 27, 1994, and the Web site Hotwired.com. What you would have seen that day were the first banner ads ever. The line-up was Volvo, MCI, Club Med and 1-800-Collect.Here's the amazing part for the advertising geeks among you. The click rate on those things: 78 percent.
Marketplace datebook for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
- The Commerce Department releases the new home sales report for September.
- The IMF kicks off a 12-day trip to Romania. The fund will review the country's progress following a $17 billion loan.
- And the World Series begins in New York. The New York Yankees will host defending champs The Philadelphia Phillies in a best of seven series.
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