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  • Feb 1, 2006

    Cowpies to cash

    A novel conference gets underway in Wisconsin this week. State agriculture officials are gathering farmers together to teach them how to turn manure into money. Brian Bull has more.

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  • Commentator Robert Reich offers incoming Fed chief Ben Bernanke some advice on his new role as the nation's top economic watch dog.

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  • Jan 26, 2006

    Airplane WiFi

    The FCC plans to sell airwave frequencies that could be used to provide airline passengers access to the Internet. Jason Paur looks at the market for WiFi in the sky.

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  • Savvy Traveler commentator Rudy Maxa cries foul over government plans for two-tiered security screening at airports.

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  • Jan 25, 2006

    Alternative Davos

    Tens of thousands of participants are expected to turn out for this week's World Social Forum, billed as an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos. But as Brian Ellsworth reports, host country Venezuela may not be the poster child for an alternative to free-market capitalism.

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  • Chris Brown, an American automaker, shares what it's like to be losing the battle over production and manufacturing.

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  • Today's installment of the job files looks at Ken Mitchell, who maintains the skating rinks for Minneapolis' city parks.

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  • Jan 18, 2006

    Nikkei’s plummet

    A criminal probe into one of Japan's highest-profile Internet companies led to an early close on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the first time in history. The market's directors declared "an emergency" of overloaded computers. From Tokyo, Steve Herman reports that before the early close, the country's benchmark Nikkei index had plunged nearly 3%.

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  • Commentator Robert Reich bemoans a surprising bank practice that's keeping him from accessing his money.

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  • Why dredge up all those memories of money you might have lost to frauds like AOL, Computer Associates, and Enron? Writer and commentator Kim Clark says those losses are worth something… but you need to act fast.

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