The Marketplace Morning Report with Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland is a series of seven 9-minute business news modules airing weekdays. This timely report delivers a global business newscast and a hard-hitting feature report. Visit the archive to browse previous stories.
Note: Each of the broadcasts contains some of the newscast items below and one of the features. Since only a few radio markets get all seven broadcasts, we've made them available below.
From Boston: Health advocates say both Presidential candidates' plans to expand healthcare don't address the real problems in the healthcare industry. That's what has sparked CodeBlueNow... a new project to rethink the system.
From New York: The state of Maine is on tenter hooks this week, waiting to see if the Department of Homeland Security will bend the rules and let Canadian loggers cross the border to keep the lumber supply flowing.
From Los Angeles: Haiti's prime minister is in Washington today to ask for help for his impoverished nation.
From Los Angeles: A valuable piece of (cyber) real estate goes on the auction block today.
From Seattle: Today marks the start of the giant Farnborough Airshow in Scotland where Boeing and Airbus are set to show their latest planes. And while Airbus has been gathering the most attention from buyers during the past few years, their reign may be coming to an end.
From Berlin: Last week, tens of thousands of workers at DaimlerChrysler plants in Germany laid down their tools in protest over cost-savings plans by
management.
From Paris: Illegal music and film downloading may soon get a little more risky in France. The French government is mulling a plan aimed at keeping those found guilty of piracy offline.
Features
The Wisdom of the Crowd?
Are large groups of people smarter than just a couple very intelligent ones? James Suroweicki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds thinks so. He joins host Kai Ryssdal to explain how that idea plays out in the stock market.
'Tis the (earnings) Season ...
The earnings season is in full swing. Host Tess Vigeland talks to William O'Neill of Investors Business Daily about how things are shaking out this time around.
Is that an Ike Button?
If you've noticed lately, there's a colorful assortment of Political Paraphernalia or as Political collectors like to call it... "Memorabilia." Items can be found in stores and on the web, and no matter who's your choice for President, there's a lot to choose from. As Julie Moody reports from Austin, Texas a lot of people are buying up t-shirts and bumper stickers, and for some... this political season means big business.
Monday, July 19, 2004
