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NPR's All Things Considered featured a story on Friday regarding growing discontent in the US over Congress and lawmakers' sentiments on political problems in America. In October, a CBS News/New York Times poll showed that Congress' approval rating had sunk to 9 percent, an all-time low. It...

NPR's Morning Edition on Friday featured an interesting segment from Mara Liasson on the widening income gap in America. It appears that the issue of income inequality is coming to the forefront of the contemporary American political discussion. A recent promotional advertisement on CNBC for a...

Reports say the German government is pushing to delay the second round of Greek bailouts until the end of the summer, but with riots increasing in intensity, it seems unlikely that the Greeks can wait that long. A delay might lead to Greece defaulting or exiting from the Eurozone. German...

According to Business Insider, a recent poll from New Hampshire concluded that business mogul and reality TV star, Donald Trump, is now second in the Republican bid for President in 2012. Donald received 21% of the vote, second only to Mitt Romney, who has 27%. The other two Republican front-...

The battle for proper airport security is beginning to heat up again now that airports are strongly considering the potential for private security. Currently, there are 17 airports in the United States – including Kansas City International Airport – that have replaced the traditional TSA screeners...

Panera is opening their second 'pay what you can' location in Dearborn, Michigan. In a NPR article, The Detroit News reports, "Panera learned from the Clayton shop (the original 'pay what you can') that 20 percent of patrons give more than the suggested donation, 60 percent give about the same...

This week, Benzinga spoke with NPR's David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt, who told an interesting story about the life of an unlikely pet: Toxie. “Toxie was our pet toxic asset at Planet Money,” Joffe-Walt revealed. She said that no one really understood what toxic assets were even though they...

You are listening to Zing Talk. I'm Brian Danowski. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Today I'm here with David Kestenbaum and Chana Joffe-Walt from NPR's Planet Money. Thank you both for coming on the show. Thanks for having us. To start off tell our listeners a little about Planet Money...

Is China's undervalued currency responsible for the loss of American jobs? That's the debate that's sparking controversy in China, prompting many Chinese analysts and economists to weigh in. Lu Zhengwei, a senior economist at the Industrial Bank, one of China's major banks, told NPR that the issue...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL (NYSE: AOL) and some private equity firms are thinking about buying Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). While there is nothing confirmed at this point, and even the WSJ says Yahoo doesn't know about it yet, but the rumors alone sent Yahoo's stock up 13% in after...