Posted by Chau Tu
For Marketplace, Friday, October 28, 2011
On today’s show, Kai spoke with a Greek native who’s leaving the country because of unemployment. Here in the U.S., consumers are spending more, but also cutting into their savings. In Washington, though, it’s all about “going big” and making major cuts to the deficit. Chase is deciding to forgo debit card fees, although customer charges will come from other places. Commentator Jon Wertheim says the days when public taxpayers dollars built arenas is slowly coming to an end, and that’ll change the economics of sports. Kai also spoke to director Andrew Niccol about his new film, “In Time,” where time literally is money. And we had the weekly wrap and small talk. Here are the songs we played:
- Girl They Won’t Believe It – Joss StoneBuy
- Second Chance – Peter Bjorn & JohnBuy
- ’03 Bonnie and Clyde – Jay-Z and BeyonceBuy
- Delicious Tears – Antn HrkwkBuy
- Sensual Seduction – Snoop DoggBuy
- Spectacular feat. Sharon Jones – DujeousBuy
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