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A Portland, Oregon native now living in Berlin wonders why in the world Germans would buy coffee from the Seattle-based Starbucks chain. As Miriam Widman reports, Starbucks is pledging more stores but isn’t doing as well as they’d hoped.

CONGRESS TAKEOUT: We speak with our Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich about how Congressional Democrats are regrouping on health care reform in the wake of losing the Massachussetts Senate race. MONEY TAKEOUT: Starbucks was hit hard by the economic crisis, closing hundreds of stores across the country. New York Times reporter Louise Story explains why things […]

More than half a million Americans lost their jobs last month alone leaving a lot of those unemployed to wonder where they’ll end up next. The Takeaway talks to two people about how they’ve bounced back after being laid off.

Starbucks seem to be everywhere, but for some communities, getting one means your town has ‘made it.’ That’s why, when the company announced the closing 5 percent of its stores across the nation earlier this month, some cried out, ‘Save our Starbucks!’ Chicago Tribune restaurant critic Phil Vettel about the campaign to keep them open.

The World’s Aaron Schachter reports from Bucharest that Romania’s housing market is booming, and consumer spending is high, but analysts there are worried that it may all come crashing down.