Latest from Noel King

• Jan 24, 2014

  Strutting in style at the Grammys doesn’t come cheap

  

  The dress, the hair, the limo — even if you're not a star (yet), it's part of the cost of breaking into the music business.

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• Jan 17, 2014

  What’s in a nickel (hint: not just nickel)

  

  It costs almost 10 cents to make a nickel, so the US Mint may change the formula for making it. We look at the cost of the nickel – and the cost to some industries of changing it.

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• Jan 10, 2014

  The economics of the ‘swag bag’

  

  Small business owners vie to get their products into Golden Globes goodie bags.

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• Jan 8, 2014

  American presidents and the rhetoric of poverty

  

  January 8, 2014, marks fifty years since President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty in America.

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• Jan 3, 2014

  Do Americans even care about Obama’s NSA reforms?

  

  There's evidence that revelations of National Security Agency data-collecting has changed online behavior of Americans in minor ways.

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• Dec 26, 2013

  You found the perfect gift. Ordered it UPS. And uh-oh… It didn’t arrive.

  

  UPS says the volume of packages exceeded its capacity and many customers didn't receive their deliveries on time.

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• Dec 25, 2013

  Returns help retailers play for keeps

  

  No retailers like returns. But they generate a lot of data, that retailers are starting to use to make purchases stick.

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• Dec 24, 2013

  Obamacare extension catches insurers off guard

  

  The Obama administration has extended the deadline for people who are signing up for health insurance on the federal exchange, but insurers are having trouble adapting.

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• Dec 18, 2013

  A shorter holiday season may mean a very Merry Xmas for FedEx and UPS

  

  Will shippers like FedEx and UPS benefit from the shortened holiday shopping season?

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• Dec 16, 2013

  A new pitch for humanitarian aid to Syria

  

  The United Nations is launching its largest appeal ever for humanitarian aid to Syrians.

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