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JPMorgan's Troubles And The Price Of Eggs

We hear about them when they go wrong, but do complex Wall Street transactions help average people?

Paying for College: More Tough Decisions

Families struggle to help children with college while providing elderly relatives with health care.

From Iowa To Russia, Tractors Build Economic Bridge

Farm equipment is built in Waterloo, Iowa, then taken apart and shipped to Russia for reassembly.

Caring For Grandparent Matures A Young Man

Nicholas McDonald is doing his best to help provide for his multigenerational family.

Uneven Economy Evens The Field For Obama, Romney

The lack of clear direction for the economy has turned the presidential race into a virtual tie.

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Nationwide Scam Catches Bay Area PG&E Customers

The utility warns that any claims of President Obama paying your utility bills are flat-out lies.

Planners to Vote on Bay Area Development Proposal

'Plan Bay Area' seeks to manage sprawl, reduce carbon emissions and protect low-income housing for the next 25 years.

Paul Krugman

New York Times op-ed columnist and 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics Paul Krugman has written a new book, called "End This Depression Now!" In it, he identifies the main problems with our nation's sluggish economy, and says that Keynesian principles might be the key to jumpstarting it. We'll talk with Krugman about what he thinks the future holds for both Wall Street and Main Street.

Making Sense of Europe

The eurozone's political and economic instability appears to be reaching a crisis point, and questions about the region's future continue to mount. Will Germany continue to push for austerity? Will Greece soon be on its own? Is Spain about to crash, with 50 percent of its youth currently unemployed?

Planet Money

NPR's blog covering the global economy.

Marketplace

American Public Media's daily look at business news.

Nightly Business Report - PBS

Business and economic coverage from PBS's flagship business news program.

PBS NewsHour

News Wrap: Greece Uncertainty, Austerity Top Agenda at G-8 Summit

In other news Friday, leaders of some of the world's largest economies began gathering at Camp David in Maryland for the G-8 summit. Also, German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested Greece hold a referendum on staying in the eurozone, according to a spokesman for Greece's caretaker government.

Post IPO, What Are Facebook's Challenges Now?

The public sale of Facebook shares on Friday didn't soar as some had expected. Margaret Warner talks to Arvind Bhatia of Sterne Agee and Rob Cox of Reuters' Breakingviews about what Facebook needs to do to keep its audience and advertisers.

Why Not Raise Taxes Instead of Interest Rates to Reduce the Deficit?

A viewer writes in, asking when inflation comes around, why not raise taxes instead of interest rates, which could be used to reduce/eliminate the deficit, which would help the economy so you could raise taxes even more in what appears to be a positive feedback loop?

Geithner: Again With the Debt-Limit Debate? 'I Don't Understand it'

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Jeffrey Brown during a factory tour Thursday in Baltimore that he couldn't understand why the debate over the federal debt limit is back again. They also discussed how regional Federal Reserve bank boards are established and how President Obama will campaign about jobs and the economy.

Voters, Economists Agree: Austerity Not The Answer

The EU's strict austerity plan may fracture the euro zone. If it does, the U.S. will suffer, too.