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The Internet search company Google surprised Wall Street by announcing that its sales and profit margins grew much faster than expected in the fourth quarter. Bob Moon of Marketplace talks about Google's robust financial performance.

New information suggests that fallen energy giant Enron initiated efforts to overcharge its municipal clients as early as 1998, years before the 2000 West Coast energy crisis. Bob Moon of Marketplace discusses the new scandal allegations.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Matthew Algeo of Marketplace about the 75th anniversary of the U.S. stock market crash that sparked the Great Depression. Algeo says the effects of that economic collapse still reverberate in today's economy.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Steve Henn of Marketplace about his investigation into the financing of trips taken by several members of Congress. Henn found that many of these trips were paid for by special-interest groups and violated gift-taking rules.

This week, the online insurance marketplaces created by the new health care law launched across the country. We check in on how things are going in Washington state.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about United Airlines. The financially troubled air carrier's latest hope for relief from bankruptcy was dashed Friday by a federal government panel that refused to guarantee a large portion of a private loan sought by the company.

NPR's Noah Adams talks with Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about three important recent decisions by the Federal Communications Commission. One of those rulings will allow users of the TiVo broadcast recording service to ship a digital broadcast of a television show to a limited list of people.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about companies that advertise on Sinclair Broadcast Group stations. Some of these advertisers are withdrawing their ads after Sinclair pledged to run a film that's harshly critical of Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry in the days leading up to the presidential election.

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about an impressive tale of corporate graft: A 500-page report released Wednesday by the board of the Hollinger corporation accuses media magnate Conrad Black of looting the company of 95 percent of its profits over seven years.

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about a new report examining the billing practices of Kellogg, Brown & Root. Pentagon auditors have determined that the Halliburton subsidiary has not adequately documented almost $2 billion in services it claims it provided the military.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about the controversy over Weyco, a Michigan company that's requiring employees to take a nicotine test. Four employees who refused to take test as part of its zero-tolerance policy on tobacco use quit before they were fired.

The president of the United Automobile Workers will have tough words for his membership, according to a report in Monday's New York Times. He plans to tell them that the U.S. automobile industry is facing an unprecedented crisis that will require sacrifices from auto workers. Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace.