Friday, October 30, 2009
In this show. . .
Crunching the stimulus job numbers
The White House said today its $787 billion stimulus program has created or saved about 650,000 jobs so far. How did it get to those numbers? Nancy Marshall Genzer checks the administration's math.
Domain names to use more languages
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is going to start allowing Web sites to register domains in languages that don't use the English alphabet. Mitchell Hartman translates what those changes will mean for business.
Bookstores profit off online price wars
Amazon, Walmart and Target have been trying to out-price each other online with the latest book hits, allowing customers to get a $25 book for $9. Some independent bookstores are taking advantage of the deals. Jeremy Hobson reports.
Weekly Wrap: The GDP
Kai Ryssdal takes another look at yesterday's Gross Domestic Product with business writer Heidi Moore and John Carney from Clusterstock.com.
Supreme Court looks into business
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on Monday which could eliminate longstanding investor protections in the mutual fund industry. Steve Henn explores why federal courts may seem friendly to business interests.
How do we live with a warmer planet?
Even if we develop all the renewable energy we need, Earth will still warm more than it has in the history of mankind. Sam Eaton and Sarah Gardner look at how governments and businesses are planning to adapt to radical changes in our environment.
Kai Ryssdal's final note
One last thought about what letter-shape the economy will most resemble as a recovery gets going. We spent some time yesterday talking whether what we've got here is a W-shaped bounce-back. But a big-time marketing guy over in the U.K. sees it a different way.Sir Martin Sorrell, the head of the giant ad agency WPP, picked up on a Reuters story that breaks it down like this: In the U.K. and Western Europe, the recovery will be L-shaped. The steep drop of the beginning of the downturn, followed by a long, flat period. The U.S. will be U-shaped, a slow turnaround. Asia and the developing economies will look more like a V.
Spell it out, and "LUV" means never having to say recession.
Marketplace datebook for Monday, November 2, 2009
- The Commerce Department releases the construction spending report for September.
- The President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board meets at the White House. You can watch via webcast at whitehouse.gov/live.
- And Happy Birthday to the Dakotas. On November 2, 1889, North and South Dakota were admitted as the 39th and 40th states of the Union.
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