Melissa Kaplan

From the department of not practicing what you preach: The New York Times reports the Energy Department has yet to advance on installing much of...

Posted by Melissa Kaplan For Marketplace Morning Report, July 7, 2010 Between NASA's space shuttle layoffs, China's major agricultural bank mov...

As far as empowerment practices go, walking on burning hot coals is pretty hardcore. But if you want to walk through fire and not get burned, you...

Posted by Melissa Kaplan For Marketplace Morning Report, July 6, 2010 Decision-makers the world over made some moves; the U.K. was drawing up a...

Blame librarian ingenuity; as attendance as begun to fall in public libraries, our literary guardians have been finding creative ways to get the...

Posted by Melissa Kaplan For Marketplace Morning Report, July 5, 2010 BP was looking for a white knight, strikers in India were looking for rel...

Posted by Melissa Kaplan For Marketplace Morning Report, July 2, 2010 It was the end of a week with a lot of really bad headlines, so we went e...

The Mid-Day Update is a five-day-a-week podcast from the Marketplace Morning Report co-hosted by Bill Radke and Steve Chiotakis that wraps up the...

If you thought a day at the tanning salon was already taxing, now the federal government is getting involved. Today begins a 10 percent tax on...

You may think the deep psychological link between money and the pursuit of happiness is strictly the burden of a free-market society, but it turns...