Name: American Public Marketplace
Host(s): Kai Ryssdal
Podcast file type(s): MP3
Average File Size(s): 13.3MB
Average Length: 28 minutes
Format (single concept, multiple concepts, multi-format): Multiple concepts: introduction summary, news summary, news segments
Production Quality (excellent, good, acceptable, bad): Excellent
Type of Content (practical content, philosophical content): This is a radio show being re-used as a podcast
Site URL: http://www.marketplace.org
Feed URL(s): http://marketplace.publicradio.org/tools/rss/rundown.php?show_id=14
Subjective Review:

This podcast/radio show is only partially oriented towards personal finance. The subject matter tends to vary between business news, personal finance influencing news, and world market news. Its not a podcast for the person looking for very practical day-to-day information, but instead is good for the person trying to keep a big picture view on world financial news. I don’t really enjoy this sort of news program on a personal level because some of the recorded story bits included audio clips and sound bites with no context. It made the credibility of the assertions a little lower to me.

The audio clips between the different segments had some nice music, but that’s probably not the best reason to listen to a financially oriented podcast. A few of the audio segments carried some political persuasion and I would caution various listeners to be discerning if they subscribe.

Context: I listened to the following dated shows: 01/25/2008, 01/24/2008, 01/23/2008, 01/22/2008 in one day.