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Getting Personal: A look back over a long, hard year
A rare treat for listeners! Tess discusses the ins and outs of 2011 with all four of our regulars, Chris Farrell, Kathy Kristof, David Lazarus and Liz Weston.
What’s on the menu for next year?
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Tess talks with David Lazarus, Kathy Kristof, Liz Weston and Chris Farrell about what we might be able to expect in 2012.
North Korea will go about ‘business as usual’
With inflation soaring, the last few years have been particularly difficult for the North Korean people, and that isn't likely to change right away
Calculating food and gas prices in consumers’ attitudes
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The Core Consumer Price Index tracks all kinds of spending except on food and gas, even though those prices help indicate consumers' choices and attitudes.
Inflation hits residential rents hard
Inflation isn't causing most Americans a problem at this point, but the prices of rental homes and apartments has risen in recent months.
MID-DAY UPDATE: Power rations in Japan, TARP couldn’t end ‘Too big to fail’
Here are today's headlines from Marketplace Morning Report and around the web. …
MID-DAY UPDATE: Sanofi-Aventis buys Genzyme, inflation is up for January
French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis announced this morning that it will buy American biotech firm Genzyme — bringing to end over six…
Remembering Alfred Kahn
A final note. There's word from Cornell University that economist Alfred Kahn has died of cancer. He was known as the father of airline…
MID-DAY UPDATE: Retail sales rose in July…
… Great news if you like higher gas prices. Consumer prices rose, too. Did we mention higher gas prices? Severe school cutbacks will take not…

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