Every Monday, The Takeaway looks at the big news stories from the week ahead. Republican presidential candidates head to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine this week; Colorado and Minnesota’s caucuses are tomorrow. In Washington, President Obama holds talks on the European debt crisis with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti while Congress takes up the STOCK Act. Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and our co-producer, WNYC Radio. Todd Zwillich, Takeaway Washington Correspondent.
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