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World markets make exuberant gains (episode)
President Bush will announce this morning the details of a program to expand protections for the U.S. financial system. The plan is to use as much as $250 billion of the $700 billion...
Conventional wisdom suggests that the more a political candidate spends on campaigning, the more likely he or she is to win the election. Stephen Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics book and blog, investigates.
On October 10, Republican presidential nominee John McCain unveiled an economic plan that would waive rules forcing senior citizens to withdraw from their IRAs or 401(k)s beginning at...
More troubles in Zimbabwe: Just four weeks after brokering a power-sharing deal, South Africa's former president Thabo Mbeki is back in Zimbabwe to try to save it.
Space exploration is as American as baseball. Or is it? For the last 15 years, American astronauts have been living and working quietly out of Star City, Russia. They speak Russian, t...
Depending on what polls you read, the numbers suggest that Democract Barack Obama is favored over Republican John McCain. But with three weeks to Election Day, do these polls really i...
For nearly 15 years, musician Eddie Adcock suffered from a tremor in his hand that nearly derailed his career as a banjo player. Then, in August, Adcock underwent surgery on his brain...
Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London and author of the Socialist Economics Bulletin blog gives The Takeaway a left-looking perspective on the global crisis.