by Laura Conaway

Brian sends the Marketplace video above.

Robert Paterson sends Are credit cards the next collapse?

Layton finds customers of a restaurant chain lamenting its demise.

Sean wants to know about the "yen-carry trade." I hope to have something about this on the podcast this week.

Akos sends an alternate take on the financial crisis, by Lawrence White at the University of Missouri.

April, an independent Web designer, reports she has just been asked to keep the hours down. She opened a thread about this on the Planet Money Facebook group. "We are getting hammered because of the recessions, and my budget has dried up," writes the client.