Oct 16th, 2008 · With the stock market in decline, there's been huge demand for gold. However, the U.S. Mint has run out of some of its popular gold bullion coins, and it won't make any more of them this year. That's left buyers and sellers on their own kind of roller-coaster.
Oct 15th, 2008 · Obsessed — and confounded — by the roller-coaster economy? To help you understand our frazzled financial situation, Laura Conaway offers three books that cover everything from the Great Depression to the "dazzling world of derivatives."
Oct 8th, 2008 · It's been a roller-coaster day on Wall Street. New York Stock Exchange floor trader Ted Weisberg, who is president of Seaport Securities, says it has been like a camel's hump — the Dow Jones industrial average was up, then down, then up again before closing nearly 200 points down.
Oct 1st, 2008 · Wall Street may be on a roller coaster and credit markets in a deep freeze, but many smaller, local banks aren't yet feeling the pinch. They lend only as much money as they take in and stayed out of the subprime mortgage business. Leon Moore, CEO of the Bank of Floyd in Floyd, Va., offers his insight.
Sep 28th, 2008 · NPR's Tom Goldman speaks to host Andrea Seabrook about the end of Major League Baseball's regular season and the playoff picture.
Sep 17th, 2008 · With the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the sale of Merrill Lynch and the bailout of insurance giant AIG, long-standing financial fortresses of America are imperiled and the stock market is like a Six Flags roller-coaster. In the midst of such upheaval, history offers a few lessons.
Aug 24th, 2008 · The New York rock group Ra Ra Riot returns from an emotional roller coaster with a fantastic new CD. Hear a cut from The Rhumb Line. Singer Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley mixes it up on her latest solo CD, Acid Tongue. Argentinian singer Juana Molina has a mesmerizing new album out in October. We've got a sneak preview. Also on the show: Brooklyn duo High Places, the "Dreamend" songs of Ryan Graveface, "Failure" from singer Laura Marling, and PCP, also known as the Portland Cello Project.
Jul 22nd, 2008 · In a recent op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, historian Jane Kamensky describes America's roller-coaster relationship with banking. In "Boom and Bust: It's The American Way" she writes that the "rapid oscillation between confidence and panic in the banking sector is nearly as old as the United States."