01/11/11 Marketplace from APM: Marketplace

GM wants to buy back financing arm; Mixed feelings over Harlem's gentrification; The Big Book: In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took it Down; Despite economic outlook, we're still fascinated by the super-rich; BP report recommends stricter safety measures; For-profit schools are struggling; Freakonomics: Should we pay for our trash?; How BP got 'In Too Deep'; Goldman Sachs promises more transparency. Listen to the podcast.

01/10/11 Marketplace from APM: Marketplace

Governor announces California's tight budget plan; Growing coffee in China's tea country; SLIDESHOW: Growing coffee in China's tea country; The price behind the choices we make; Cupcakes go to Wall Street; Should GDP measure happiness?; New bank fees are aimed at lower income customers; Can Verizon's network handle all the new iPhone users?; How much did the Fed make?; The Big Book: The Price of Everything. Listen to the podcast.

January 8: The Splendid Table from APM: The Splendid Table

This week we're looking at why we find things pleasurable with Paul Bloom, author of How Pleasure Works, The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. Jane and Michael Stern are at The Orange Inn in Laguna Beach, CA, and tea authority Bill Waddington introduces to the first brand-new strain of tea ever developed, Ruby 18. Download the podcast here.

"Who's winning in the global race to economic recovery?" from APM's Marketplace

JOHNSON: No I think it's a very bad idea. You don't have a lot of fiscal space. You should ve using it to stimulate the economy in a more effective way. The structure of these tax cuts is just lining us up for exactly the same kind of stress test from financial markets. When they're done with Europe and some European countries have passed and can be regarded as an alternative safe-haven, those financial markets will turn again the United States. And in fact we've thrown caution to the wind in terms of our deficit and the increase in debt you get from these tax cuts. That will be held against us by those very same markets.

View the APM Marketplace story, here. Download the podcast here. See also: Starting over in Eastern Europe: Entrepreneurship and Economic Renewal,

"Kinect will be more than a video game system" from APM's Marketplace

The Kinect video game system is selling like crazy. 2.5 million units have already been sold, according to Microsoft, and five million are expected to sell between now and Christmas. It's going to be very significant to the video game industry but the technology of the controller-less controller could mean a lot to the world outside of gaming as well. Heather Chaplin is an assistant professor of journalism at The New School and author of the acclaimed book, "Smartbomb: The Quest for Art Entertainment and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution." She says while the military used to be the source for breakthrough innovations, those eureka moments have shifted to the private sector, and the military watches it carefully. She joins us to describe the possibility of Kinect being used in a war zone.

View the Marketplace feature webpage on this story, here. Download the podcast of this show here.

The Inner Landscape of Beauty (November 25, 2010) from APM: Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book "Anam Cara", Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling and a defining aspect of God. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible worlds intertwine in human experience.

Download the podcast. See also: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

"Banks that support communities" from APM's Marketplace

Economic analyst David Korten is author of the book "Agenda for a New Economy." KORTEN: A bank that offers real financial services is very different than a predator bank that is basically trying to extract as much wealth as possible out of the community. Note that Bremer is a for-profit bank. So far, not so weird. But listen to its structure: 8 percent of Bremer is owned by its employees -- its tellers, loan officers, security guards. And the other 92 percent of the bank is owned by -- get this -- a charity. The Bremer Charitable Foundation takes profits and gives them back to the communities the bank serves as grants. There were about $23 million in Bremer grants last year, including $35,000 to Community of Care, a North Dakota non-profit that helps older people like Louise Flemmer get to a doctor's appointments.

View the APM Marketplace feature story here. Download this episode of APM Marketplace here. See also: When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, The Post Corporate World: Life After Capitalism, Globalizing Civil Society (Open Media Pamphlet Series, 4)

11/05/10 Marketplace from APM: Marketplace

TEXT OF INTERVIEW KAI RYSSDAL: Hurricane Toma is delivering yet more trouble to Haiti today. Officials in Port-au-Prince say three people have died in the storm. It's just the latest in a year of tragedies for the country. There was January's devastating earthquake and the recent cholera outbreak a couple weeks ago as well. Haitian-born novelist Edwidge Danticat lives in New York City now. Her new book, "Create Dangerously," is about that life as an immigrant and an expatriate writer and what it's like to make art out of a country in chaos. Today on our series Art of Money -- what artists and other see when they look at the economy -- the culture of Haiti. Its music, its literature and its paintings, and what that all means to the Haitian people, and how they get by. When we spoke, I asked Edwidge Danticat to describe what it is like when people see Haiti for the first time. EDWIDGE DANTICAT: You know, when you take a group of students and they get there at the airport, it's almost suddenly tehnicolor because it's art everywhere -- the tap-taps, the transportation...

The full transcript of the show can be found here. The podcast can also be found here. See also: Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series), Haiti Noir (Akashic Noir), An excerpt from a lecture "Create dangerously": Given at the University of Uppsala in December 1957, Eight Days

Invincible from APM: The Story

The rapper Invincible recently lobbied successfully for MTV-U to air her independent video, Ropes. The song is controversial because it deals with suicide and depression. Invincible once seemed poised to “make it” in the record industry in the Big Apple. She was offered the chance to stand on stage next to Madonna. Instead, she chose to go back to Detroit and rap about tough social issues that matter to her. PERSONAL POLITICS: THE POLLS Political analysts are still tallying up what the changes in this past week's election will mean for all of us. We asked listeners to call in with stories of how participating in the electoral process can make a difference personally. Today, two stories, both from young voters.

Read the full story here. Listen to the podcast here. Download the podcast here. See also: Shapeshifters, Her MySpace Page

"Question: Is $250,000 rich?" from APM's Marketplace

TED KLONTZ: Ben Franklin said, he asked the question who is rich? And he answered that by saying he who is content. And then he asked the question, who's that? And he said nobody. That's Ted Klontz. He's a financial psychologist and author of "Mind Over Money." Through today's show we'll be hearing from him and from Robert Frank, who writes the wealth report blog for the Wall Street Journal. We started with Frank and the question: Is $250,000 rich?

Download the podcast here. View the APM Marketplace feature story here. See also: The Financial Wisdom of Ebenezer Scrooge: 5 Principles to Transform Your Relationship with Money, The Ten Commandments for Extraordinary Relationships, Wired for Wealth: Change the Money Mindsets That Keep You Trapped and Unleash Your Wealth Potential

10/13/10 Marketplace from APM: Marketplace

Read chapter one of Elmore Leonard's newest book "Djibouti," published by Harper Collins. The novel follows an award-winning documentary filmmaker to the Horn of Africa to film Somali pirates at work. As of today, there are 21 ships being held by pirates off the coast of Somalia. That's the stretch of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean leading into and out of the Suez Canal, so it's a pretty busy piece of water. About 22,000 ships cross it every year. Billions of dollars worth of cargo. Hundreds of billions of dollars, quite possibly. Tempting targets for people with guns, boats and little to lose. The Somali pirates are the focus of the main character, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, in Elmore Leonard's new book "Djibouti." Kai Ryssdal spoke to Leonard about the book. They also talk about why he's drawn to bad guys (they're not all bad, especially if they're played by George Clooney) and why he probably won't write a crime novel about Wall Street anytime soon.

Listen to the show, here. Read the excerpt here.

The Help: Nonfiction from APM: The Story

For nearly two years ‘The Help’ has been on bestseller lists across the country. It’s a fictional account of African-American maids and their white employers in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 60’s. Today, Dick talks with Alma Cousin who was a real-life maid in Jackson at that time, along with Elizabeth Hays, one of the white children she cared for.

Listen to the APM podcast here.

10/05/10 Marketplace Tech Report from APM: Future Tense

Here's a thought: What if all that time you waste on social networking websites isn't a waste of time at all? What if tweeting your tweets on Twitter and facebooking with your fake friends on Facebook is actually a path toward finding the next big idea, the next breakthrough A-ha(!) moment of your life? We talk to author Steven Johnson. His new book Where Good Ideas Come From argues that we may be more likely to have our breakthrough on social networks than sitting alone at a desk.

Listen to the podcast here.

Is The Word 'Publish' Becoming Obsolete? from Read Write Web by Richard MacManus

The Magazine Publishers of America was established in 1919 and is the leading industry association for magazine publishers. However, it's just announced a curious name change. It will still be known by the acronym MPA, but is officially dropping two of the words from that acronym: "publishers" and "America." Henceforth, the trade group will be known (rather illogically) as "MPA - The Association of Magazine Media." The reason? "Magazine media content engages consumers globally across multiple platforms, including websites, tablets, smartphones, books, live events and more."

In the Read Write Web article, the writer deals with the definition of "publishing" and whether even the definition that Oxford has down as its official meaning is in something of a contradiction to what the author actually experiences and believes. The idea of publishing and the book itself is challenged here; it's an interesting read. Perhaps we're getting somewhere.

Faking It from NYT Freakonomics Radio by freakonomics.podcast@gmail.com (Co-produced by American Public Media’s Marketplace® and WNYC.)

It’s not only our politicians who fake it. William Ian Miller, a law professor at the University of Michigan, admits that his own anxieties about teaching law led him to write the book Faking It. (He’s really a medieval historian.) This podcast features people who fake their religion, their political views – even their desire to have kids. That might sound terrible, but you have to ask: could society survive without lies like these?

Read the full NYT Freakonomics Radio feature here, and listen to their podcast. See also: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, The Anatomy of Disgust

"A look back at TARP" from APM's Marketplace

Jonathan Alter is the author of the new political book "The Promise." JONATHAN ALTER: Barack Obama told me in an interview that he knew that it would be toxic politically for him to back the TARP bailouts, but he also knew that it was necessary to prevent a depression. Even the House Republican Leader John Boehner, who now decries TARP, pleaded with his members to vote for it. JOHN BOEHNER: If I didn't think we were on the brink of an economic disaster, it would be the easiest thing in the world to me to say no to this. But I believe the risk in not acting is much higher than the risk in acting. But Congress wasn't swayed, and voted TARP down at first. By the time a package was passed, buying up mortgages would have been too time-consuming. So the government decided to temporarily pump money directly into the banks. And Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics says that turned out to be a slam-dunk success.

Download the podcast here. See the full APM Marketplace feature story here. See also: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, Charlie Rose with Mark Halperin & Jonathan Alter; Robert Altman & Neve Campbell; Orlando Bagwell & Noland Walker (January 16, 2004)

The Science of Trust: Economics and Virtue (July 9, 2009) from APM: Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett

In a few breathtaking months, we've culturally moved from seeing Wall Street as an icon of thriving civil society to discussing its workings with book titles like "House of Cards" and "Animal Spirits." As part of our ongoing Repossessing Virtue series, we'll talk to pioneering neuroeconomist Paul Zak. We look at what science is learning about trust, fair play, and empathy -- and what these qualities have to do with human character and economics.

You can download or listen to the show here. See also: Monetary Stability and Economic Growth: A Dialog Between Leading Economists

"What you should and shouldn't drink" from APM's Marketplace

Dave Zinczenko is the editor in chief of Men's Health magazine. He's also the author of the latest installment of the "Eat This, Not That!" series, called "Drink This, Not That!" Dave, welcome to the program. DAVID ZINCZENKO: Kai, it's great to be here. RYSSDAL: Any big surprises in this book, Dave? ZINCZENKO: I mean, how about a vitaminwater with as much sugar as two Good Humor Eclair bars? That's what you get with a Snapple Antioxidant Water. RYSSDAL: See, that's crazy. ZINCZENKO: It's a lot. Traditional Lobsterita -- this is a margarita Red Lobster with a twist -- I mean, this is the equivalent of having two Wendy's quarter-pound singles. RYSSDAL: I read some great statistic in a letter from the editor that you wrote in Men's Health not too long ago: American men drink 460 more calories per day than they did 20, 30 something years ago.

Download the podcast show here. View the full feature story here. See also: Cook This, Not That!: Kitchen Survival Guide, Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution, Eat This, Not That! 2011: Thousands of easy food swaps that can save you 10, 20, 30 pounds--or more!, Cook This, Not That! Easy & Awesome 350-Calorie Meals, Eat This Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide: The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution

"When in recession, fad diets reign" from APM's Morning Report

STACEY VANEK-SMITH: It's spring, and you know what that means: swimsuit season is right around the corner and diet season is in full swing. Americans spend $55 billion a year trying to lose weight. But our diet obsession is nothing new. Susan Yager is author of the new book, "The Hundred Year Diet." Good morning, Susan. SUSAN YAGER: Good morning.

Download the podcast here. See the feature story here. See also: Doctor Hubbard's Sex Facts for Men and Women, Why Men Stop Having Sex: Men, the Phenomenon of Sexless Relationships, and What You Can Do About It