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Paddy Hirsch

Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard. 

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  • 30-year mortgage rate falls again. Good news or bad?

    Freddie Mac announced today that the 30-year mortgage rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1951. It's at 4.09 percent now, which should be…

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  • Sep 15, 2011

    Sue me

    Remember the dot com crash? Back then one of the best sources of news on the collapsing economy was a chap called Philip Kaplan, alias Pud. He…

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  • Benjamin Davis from Greenville SC sent us a very sweet note today….

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    A lot of suggestions are getting tossed around Washington on the best way to deal with the country's financial standstill. But what exactly is the difference between how Federal Reserve and Treasury can help?

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  • An Apple Store customer looks at the new Apple iPhone 4Gs in San Francisco.
    Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

    iPhone users say they will upgrade to the new iPhone 5….even though Apple hasn't even announced that there will be an iPhone 5. (of course they…

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  • Trucks drive along Interstate Highway 90 in Chicago.
    Scott Olson/Getty Images

    Truckers are buying less diesel fuel. A study by Ceridian and UCLA found that diesel fuel purchases fell in July and August, meaning there's less…

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  • Corn is cooked during a barbecue.
    Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images

    The USDA had some bad news for people who like to eat corn-based products today. The hot, dry summer is to blame for what's likely to be a poor c…

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  • WHITEBOARD: What is a yield curve?

    If you've been following what the Federal Reserve is doing with the interest rate of late, you have probably heard them talk about the yield curve…

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  • People make their way past a Bank of America branch at New York's Time Square in New York.
    Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

    The markets buzzed today with reports that Bank of America may have to cut 40,000 jobs. This bad news comes less than 24 hours after President Obama launched a job creation proposal that looks both lackluster and doomed to failure in Congress.

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  • The Fed Chairman said today that he "expects economic growth to improve slowly and inflation to ease":http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents…

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