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Panera Opens Pay-What-You-Can in Dearborn, Michigan
Friday, November 26, 2010 - 11:18am | 118Panera is opening their second 'pay what you can' location in Dearborn, Michigan. In a NPR article, The Detroit News reports, "Panera learned from the Clayton shop (the original 'pay what you can') that 20 percent of patrons give more than the suggested donation, 60 percent give about the same...
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Toxie, The World's Most Unlikely Pet
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 11:56am | 486This week, Benzinga spoke with NPR's David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt, who told an interesting story about the life of an unlikely pet: Toxie. “Toxie was our pet toxic asset at Planet Money,” Joffe-Walt revealed. She said that no one really understood what toxic assets were even though they...
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The Story of Toxie: An Interview with NPR's David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 4:46pm | 1259You are listening to Zing Talk. I'm Brian Danowski. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Today I'm here with David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt from NPR's Planet Money. Thank you both for coming on the show. Thanks for having us. To start off tell our listeners a little about Planet Money...
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As Critics Push China To Revalue Its Currency, Analysts Weigh In
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 8:58am | 261Is China's undervalued currency responsible for the loss of American jobs? That's the debate that's sparking controversy in China, prompting many Chinese analysts and economists to weigh in. Lu Zhengwei, a senior economist at the Industrial Bank, one of China's major banks, told NPR that the issue...
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Yahoo To Be Bought by AOL?
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 10:09am | 363The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL (NYSE: AOL) and some private equity firms are thinking about buying Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). While there is nothing confirmed at this point, and even the WSJ says Yahoo doesn't know about it yet, but the rumors alone sent Yahoo's stock up 13% in after...
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Bank of America To Put Foreclosures On Hold In All 50 States
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 10:52am | 276With well over a million homes being repossessed, 2010 is shaping up to be a record year for foreclosures in the U.S. But there are serious questions about the way many have been carried out, and now prosecutors are investigating whether some of the country's largest banks committed fraud,...