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His Beatles-parody mockumentary The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch comes out on DVD next month. He's also written the book for the Monty Python farce Spamalot on Broadway.

Newsweek columnist Daniel Gross says a lot of people use home equity to buy big-ticket items, such as boats and cars, and those industries are already blaming a downturn in business on the problems in the housing market.

rely more and more on young computer users for valuable information about consumer preferences and buying patterns.

Robert talks to NPR's Mara Liasson, who is travelling on President Clinton's train to the Democratic Convention in Chicago. At a stop today at the Police Academy in Columbus, Ohio, the President proposed expanding the Brady Bill to make it illegal for people convicted of domestic violence to buy handguns.

For years, liquor companies have conformed to an unwritten moratorium on advertisements for their products on television and radio. But NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the Seagrams company has decided to defy the ban, insisting the industry's restraint has placed it at a competitive disadvantage to wine and beer companies who regularly buy tv and radio time for their ads.

start buying and selling stocks in decimal points rather than the current fractions. It is a move that could save investors billions of dollars.

Now that California Governor Gray Davis has signed a 10-billion-dollar bond measure, putting the state in the power-buying business, questions abound. Scott Horsley has the story from member station KPBS.

NPR's David D'Arcy reports on the new respect for contemporary art at the big auction houses in New York. While sales of older paintings have been slow, publicity is fueling interest in newer artists, but some worry that it's simply impulse buying.

China makes sure its currency does not grow stronger against the dollar by using its vast reserve of dollars to buy U.S. Treasury securities. That helps finance the government's record budget deficits, but there are concerns beyond the purely economic about this relationship.

This Fourth of July, forget about buying sparklers. We can show you how to make your own sparks... and a darn good tuna steak... with just a few simple household tools. Join host Korva Coleman and mad food scientist Alton Brown for a backyard barbecue unlike any other.