Oct 5, 2015

Marketplace for Monday, October 5, 2015

Global trade; Jack Dorsey's permanent gig; and will your surgery cost more than a Disneyland annual pass? We'll tell you.

Segments From this episode

American Apparel faces challenges other retailers have

by Nova Safo

Oct 5, 2015

The chain filed for bankruptcy. Its challenge: attracting young shoppers.

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Dealing with red tape? There's an app for that

by Kai Ryssdal

Oct 5, 2015

Skip all the bureaucracy.

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Disney tries to solve its popularity problem

by Adriene Hill

Oct 5, 2015

The company may turn to peak pricing to cut down on crowds.

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President Obama talks trade

In the end, the real hurdle to a TPP deal was drugs

by Tracey Samuelson

Oct 5, 2015

Talks came down to a fight between intellectual property and access to medicine.

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Jack Dorsey named permanent Twitter CEO

by Kai Ryssdal , Molly Wood and Mukta Mohan

Oct 5, 2015

Now he has to figure out how to keep it interesting and bring people back.

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What to do about all that space junk? Cue the lasers

by Kimberly Adams

Oct 5, 2015

For now, we 'watch and hope' that debris in the orbital fast lane won't hit ISS.

GRAPHIC - (CIRCA 1989): This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) handout image shows a graphical representation of space debris in low Earth orbit. According to the European Space Agency there are 8,500 objects larger than 10 cm (approximately 3.9 inches) orbiting the earth and 150,000 larger than 1 cm (approximately 0.39 inches).

Photo by NASA/Getty Images

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The tough road from Bhutan refugee camp to the US

by Lewis Wallace

Oct 5, 2015

Many of the refugees have never worked and have had little to no education.

Tara Dhungana came to the U.S. five years ago after nearly two decades in a camp in Nepal. He's now the head of employment services for Community Refugee and Immigration Services in Columbus, Ohio.

Lewis Wallace

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Putting a price on healthcare

by Kai Ryssdal

Oct 5, 2015

One hospital is finding out the cost of its services, from surgery to stitches.

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Jack Dorsey and Dov Charney: A tale of two founders

by Tony Wagner

Oct 5, 2015

Both young and charismatic CEOs were ousted from their own companies. One came back.

Global trade; Jack Dorsey’s permanent gig; and will your surgery cost more than a Disneyland annual pass? We’ll tell you.

Music from the episode

Baghdad Sun Apollo Brown

I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) Pitbull

Hypnotize - Instrumental The Notorious B.I.G.

The World Is Watching Two Door Cinema Club, Valentina Pappalardo

Take a Walk Passion Pit

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