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Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard.
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30% chance of another recession, economists say
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 15, 2011
The likelihood of the U.S. slipping back into recession doubled in the past three months, according to a survey of 39 economists by USA TODAY. Th...
Buffett advocates millionaire tax
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 15, 2011
Joining the ranks of those in favor of raising taxes on the rich today, one of the richest of them all. Warren Buffett.
"My friends and I have b...
Is Japan on the road to recovery?
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 15, 2011
Lost decade. Zombie banks. Nuclear disaster. Headlines like that don't make Japan the obvious choice for the poster child for economic recovery. ...
Why ban short selling?
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 12, 2011
Italy, France, Spain and Belgium banned short selling today. They want to calm the markets down, and they figure "the shorts," as they're called,...
Kai Ryssdal, live in five... four... three...
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 12, 2011
Kai writes... Let me just tell you right out -- I am biased.
But I think there's really no better place in Southern California to talk about the...
Waiter, waiter! There's a recession in my salad!
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 12, 2011
New York grocer Zabar's busted subbing crawfish in so-called lobster salad. What's next, tilapia in the lox?
A.I.
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 12, 2011
The stock market's fastest electronic firms boosted trading threefold during the rout of August 1-10, Bloomberg reports.
Gary Wedbush, executive...
Putting the market in its place
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 12, 2011
John Hailer, president of Natixis Asset Management, tells Marketplace's Heidi Moore he doesn't think the stock market is an indicator of the U.S....
Banks are jumpin' and the market is high
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 12, 2011
Bank of America, Citi, Wells, RBS, up, up, UP! Shares in banking companies sashayed higher today ... and no-one could really explain why.
Many o...