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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Marketplace

1. January 19, 2011 10:12 AM

   Adventures in Markets Reporting

   By Felix Salmon

   European stocks went up today, and European bonds went down. That happens, sometimes. But there was lots of news floating around about a possible eurozone rescue fund, which resulted in stock-market reports saying that stocks went up "as euro zone finance ministers inched towards improving a rescue fund", while the bond-market reports said that bonds fell "after the Dutch finance...

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2. August 8, 2011 01:57 PM

   Blaming the Audience: Almost Always a Bad Idea

   By Ryan Chittum

   Marketplace's Heidi N. Moore lays into a listener for getting upset about Wall Street wanting to cut her entitlements. In a Tumblr post responding to the listener’s letter to Marketplace, Moore says she and the rest of the press are just reporting what powerful people are saying, whether you want to hear it or not.
 Well, take your hands off...

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3. February 18, 2011 11:15 AM

   The Budget Narrative

   The press goes astray on Social Security

   By Trudy Lieberman

   For most of last year and so far into this one, the media has passed along the narrative that Social Security is a major cause of the nation’s deficit and it, along with other entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid, needs a good hair cut. The president’s now-defunct deficit commission and assorted deficit hawks peddled that notion so vigorously that it...

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4. July 13, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Goldman Sachs of online retail

   The FT with a good look at Amazon's Marketplace platform

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Financial Times is running a good series this week on Amazon, one of the country's most fascinating and frustrating companies. This piece on how Amazon has transformed itself from an online book retailer into a retail and outsourcing giant is particularly interesting. The Wall Street Journal reported a couple of weeks ago that some of Amazon's third-party Marketplace vendors...

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