Louis Rukeyser, who popularized economics and finance for more than 30 years as host of public television's Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser, died Tuesday at the age of 73.
The best-selling author succumbed to a prolongued battle with multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer.
He died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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