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Are we still a land of 'meat and potatoes?'

Marketplace  Mon, 02/06/2012 - 16:03

Commentator Mark Bittman says for many, beef is no longer what's for dinner.


 

Don't forget the American Dream

Marketplace  Tue, 11/01/2011 - 12:50

Commentator David Willis says a series of financial crises have eroded American optimism, and risk killing the American Dream.


 

How to fix Social Security

Marketplace  Wed, 02/23/2011 - 13:31

Commentator Robert Reich says there's one way to keep Social Security financially solvent. And it doesn't involve cutting benefits or raising the retirement age.


 

What now: TV networks turn the dial on old routines

Marketplace  Wed, 01/05/2011 - 15:10

NBC and ABC will both be airing half-hour comedies at 10 p.m. But it's been two decades since any network has tried airing comedies at that hour.

Commentator and "Parks and Recreation" creator Michael Schur says there is a good reason why TV routines are changing.


 

What now: Writing the laws of financial reform

Marketplace  Tue, 01/04/2011 - 13:31

Commentator Bethany McLean has some advice for the writers of the the laws of the Frank-Dodd financial reform and also to Congress and financiers who may influence over the laws are shaped.


 

REICH: A tale of two U.S. economies

Marketplace  Wed, 12/29/2010 - 12:13

Commentator Robert Reich gives his predictions about the American economy in the new year.


 

Latino Voters 101

Marketplace  Thu, 10/28/2010 - 15:51

Commentator Gustavo Arellano gives advice to politicians on how to really draw in the Latino vote.


 

Reform won't change Wall Street pay

Marketplace  Thu, 09/24/2009 - 11:40

Lawmakers may try to regulate Wall Street compensation, but commentator Andy Kessler says no amount of meddling is going to fix the pay scales.


 

A family history of starting over

Marketplace  Fri, 09/18/2009 - 10:48

Despite signs of an economic recovery, jobs are still scarce. Increasing unemployment means more people are having to start over, like commentator Peter Basch.


 

Fighting health-care myths isn't healthy

Marketplace  Thu, 09/17/2009 - 11:05

President Obama is on a campaign to build support for his plan to overhaul health care, and to dispel some of the rumors about it.

But commentator Farhad Manjoo says that's the wrong thing to do.