This week in France the government failed to strike a deal with its OWN employees, on the continuing dispute over a 35-hour work week. Nick Spicer reports on a law introduced by the Socialist government, that was meant to create jobs, but looks so far to have mainly created confusion. Week on Wall Street Marketplace host David Brancaccio wraps up the week on the world's financial markets with Dallas stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson. In the age of water cooler gossip, improprieties probably didn't lead to employees losing their jobs as quickly as they might now in the Internet Age. Jeff Seglin has this report.
Game shows mean less sitcom jobs at the networks.
Commentator Cash Peters has no pity. Another installment from host David Brancaccio's book, Squandering Aimlessly, brings Reverend Matthews, rector of the wealthiest little church on Wall Street.