Marketplace Midday Update, Wednesday, December 30, 2009

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MARKET UPDATE at 1:45 p.m. EST DOW -13.60; NASDAQ -5.19; S&P 500 -2.56 Marketplace Minute With Bill Radke Watch Marketplace Morning Report host Bill Radke cram all the week's business news into a 60-second poem. LATEST NEWS FROM MARKETPLACE Listen to today's Morning Report | Marketplace Death and taxes The estate tax expires at midnight tomorrow night, and according to the Wall Street Journal, some wealthy people on death's doorstep are trying to hang on until it does. Lessons for the New Year I'm sitting here in a thinker's pose, wondering what it is that I learned in 2009. Or what lessons should I have learned? Id love your help on this. LATER TODAY ON MARKETPLACE President Obama's health care reform effort has passed the House and Senate, but that's not the only significant thing that happened this year in health care. Host Kai Ryssdal talks with reporter Nancy Marshall Genzer to find out more. New York City's Times Square is the nation's focal point when the ball drops to ring in the New Year, but this year the crossroads of the world will look a little different. Sections of Times Square are now for pedestrians only. Andrea Bernstein reports. Maybe it's the bad economy or the soaring price of wood, but timber theft is booming. That's led to more regulations to stop the crime and even a backlash against the enforcement efforts. Tanya Ott reports. Tune in to your local broadcast or listen online STORIES FROM MARKETPLACE MORNING REPORT GMAC to get $3.5 billion more from feds The federal government is expected to give about $3.5 billion of TARP money to GMAC so the lender can continue to meet the requirements of earlier stress tests. Bill Radke gets more from Marketplace's Alisa Roth. Premiums to put FDIC back in black The FDIC is collecting three-years' worth of premiums it charges to banks so that it can restore its depleted insurance fund. Mitchell Hartman reports. How to collaborate and not go crazy If you've been in the work force for any amount of time, you have been asked to collaborate. But what if you just want to do things your way? Bill Radke talks with choreographer Twyla Tharp, who wrote a book on collaboration. MARKETPLACE MONEY PERSONAL FINANCE The financial year in review It's still a coin collector's world How to give good gifts 2009 money resolutions: How we fared Investment club tries for a comeback Getting Personal More from Marketplace Money Subscribe to the Marketplace Money newsletter SPONSOR Coverage from Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Money plus Web extras. SPECIAL REPORTS AND FEATURES We're on Twitter Get an early heads-up of what's coming up on the show and other tidbits from the business day. Follow us   Working Intimate profiles of real people with real families, real struggles, real dreams and real jobs. Meet them   Conversations from the Corner Office Marketplace goes one-on-one with CEOs, company founders, head honchos. Sit in The Next American Dream Marketplace looks at four pillars of the American Dream and how they're changing. Follow the Dream.

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