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For a moment there, things were looking really peachy in housing.

Your dollar bill isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Why? Because it's a fiat currency. Sr. Producer Paddy Hirsch explains.

Changing the public radio production process by making listeners the focus and subject of the show.

"A little bit of inflation is our friend, not our enemy," says Prof. David Blanchflower

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Goodwill reads like an afterthought in a company's annual report. But it's often the most important component of a company's operation, as Sr. Producer Paddy Hirsch explains.

The moral of the story of the near collapse of Cyprus' banking system is that when a saving rate looks too good to be true, it probably is.

A currency war sounds weirdly abstract, like a game played by rival politicians -- but it can have devastating effects in the real world. And it’s not all that different from a rivalry of different kind – a hypothetical sibling rivalry.

We’ve been swamped with real estate news this month. But what does it all mean?

Critics say that raising the debt ceiling is like paying off one credit card with another. But if you dig into it, that analogy is flawed.