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Business, Economics and Jobs

Egypt's bread crisis

The World

March 31, 2008

Ursula Lindsey reports from Cairo on Egypt's bread crisis: the price of a loaf of bread is rising, while Egyptians' salaries stay the same and the result is huge lines outside Egypt's government-subsidized bakeries\

Business, Economics and Jobs

The high price of rice

The World

March 28, 2008

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Richard Manning, an environmental and agricultural journalist, about yesterday's steep increase in the price of rice, a global staple.

Environment

Green grocer

Living on Earth

March 28, 2008

A Whole Foods store in Connecticut is the first supermarket in the country to get all its power from a stationary fuel cell. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with Bob Remick, director of the National Renewable Energy Lab, about how fuels cells work and the promise of fuel cell technology.

Business, Economics and Jobs

South Korean housing prices soar

The World

March 27, 2008

Housing prices have skyrocketed in South Korea in the past five years which is good news for sellers, but bad news for young Koreans trying to buy their first home, as Jason Strother reports from the capital Seoul.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Miami woos foreign buyers

The World

March 27, 2008

Miami has been hit hard by the housing crisis, but as The World's Jason Margolis reports, the city has been actively wooing foreign buyers to ease its real estate woes.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Ford sells Jaguar to Tata

The World

March 26, 2008

U.S. carmaker Ford wants to sell luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover, and today Indian company Tata agreed to buy them; Anchor Marco Werman gets reaction to the deal from reporter Tinku Ray in New Delhi.

Business, Economics and Jobs

'Fair Game': Robert Reich

March 25, 2008

Faith talks to Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor about the state of our economy, corporate bailouts and NAFTA.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Mac N' Cheese

March 25, 2008

Fair Game news analyst Matt Pack investigates the correlation between a faltering economy and a rise in the consumption of Macaroni and Cheese.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Robert Reich

March 25, 2008

Faith talks to Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor and now Professor of Public Policy, about the state of the economy.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Bernanke voicemail

March 24, 2008

Fair Game takes a look at some of the brazen bail-out requests that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has received in his voicemail.

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