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Weekly Wrap: The short version of the Fed notes

Feb 21, 2014
Kai talks with Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post and Felix Salmon of Reuters

Weekly Wrap: Settling beer bets

Feb 14, 2014
Kai talks to Nela Richardson and Cardiff Garcia. Bets are settled.

Weekly Wrap: Taper the taper?

Feb 7, 2014
Kai's weekly chat with The Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy and Bloomberg Government's Nela Richardson.

Weekly Wrap: Derivative fight!

Jan 31, 2014
Catherine Rampell and Felix Salmon join Kai Ryssdal to bid farewell to Ben Bernanke, analyze Argentina, and argue about calculus

No high-fives in Washington, despite budget deal

Jan 17, 2014
President Obama signed the $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds the federal government through the end of September.

First, the polar vortex. Now, a winter jobs swoon!

Jan 10, 2014
Breaking down the bad news from the falling unemployment rate.

For public good, not for profit.

Will the big profits of 2013 continue this year?

Jan 3, 2014
Leigh Gallagher, of Fortune Magazine, and Felix Salmon, of Reuters, say that last year's profits could mean good news for the economy in 2014.

How hopeful can we be about the 2014 economy?

Dec 27, 2013
Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary and John Carney from CNBC say that the optimism to end this year could help kick-off 2014.

Weekly wrap: Good news in the jobs report? + #longreads

Dec 6, 2013
Heidi Moore from the Guardian and the Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy join host Kai Ryssdal to look back at the week's business news and forward at where the economy is going after today's jobs report.