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Shadow banking: still big, still dangerous
The part of the financial system that lends the most money to Americans remains almost untouched by regulation. It's shadow banking, as Paddy Hirsch explains.
Market makers, stub quotes and new SEC rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to make equity markets safer by pushing market makers to tighten up their standards, and stop making so-called stub quotes. Paddy Hirsch explains.
Bad headlines need a good holiday
This week: Bill looks for a glimmer of hope in the headlines, but finds Toyota recalls, leaking oil, financial reform and the bailout, and the U.S. losing in the World Cup.
Marketplace Minute: Drilling ban, Viacom feels slammed, and enough iPhones, man!
This week: Bill Radke tackles financial reform, the G-20, Viacom versus YouTube, Fannie Mae's attack on mortgage defaults and the over-glorified iPhone 4.
Marketplace Minute: BP wallows in walrus woes
On this week's Marketplace Minute: BP woes and walruses, iPhone 4 preorder wars, deflation and early French retirement.
Currency pegs
Pressure from the US may have pushed China to unpeg its currency from the dollar this week. But how did that peg work in the first place? Paddy Hirsch explains.
'Casino' banks targeted in Volcker rule
It looks certain that some version of the so-called Volcker rule will make it into the financial reform package being prepared by the U.S. Congress. Paddy Hirsch explicates what the Volcker rule is. More at Marketplace.org
Marketplace Minute with Bill Radke, 5/28
This week: BP oil spill, the Continental/United merger, Spain's spending cuts, Sex and the City 2, and Apple versus Microsoft.
Marketplace Minute With Bill Radke 5/21
In a 60-second poem, Bill covers this week's top news: Stocks seek a retreat, BP responds to critiques, a tough week for the euro, financial reform, Iceland's volcano and Facebook shares your data.
