Each week on Marketplace Money, host Tess Vigeland looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet.
Mass. may opt to pay flat doctors' fees; What to do with your credit cards; New GI Bill victim of its own popularity; Learn about money at home; Talking money back at her old school; Getting Personal; Finding intimacy in finances; Dad, daughter reflect on money lessons; Earning an allowance through chores
...MOREFinancial Futures: Talking money to kids; Denver's big public transit plans; Mom hands daughter lessons on giving; When is bankruptcy a good idea?; Getting Personal; Parents: Why make money talk taboo?; Fostering financial responsibility in L.A.; Two tragedies, two views on money; Before reform, cards play with interest
...MOREFaster foreclosures, quicker turnaround; Why I say no to health insurance; How to haggle for the best medical cost; Getting Personal; Buying your own business online; Don't let online reviews fake you out; Suffering from a case of 'luxury guilt?'; How to find lower holiday airfares; One family's recessionary tale; A music studio and a gumball machine
...MOREPension funds turn back the clock; Is the FDIC still in good health?; Economy hits elderly immigrants hard; The Marketplace Money Prize goes to ...; Recession is becoming a real grind; Getting Personal; A tip for young people: Save and invest; Comments from our listeners; 'Scrubs' star gives finances urgent care; A juvenile, delinquent on his payments
...MORETime to rally behind the stock market?; EOB forms have some explaining to do; He's carrying out his takeout idea; Getting Personal; A month of getting by on nothing; Kids and money: Have you had the talk?; Young and talking money, for the family; Learning finance with guinea pigs; Mementos of a health care emergency
...MOREWhen people just stop looking for work; Progress report on consumer protection; A tale of debt and redemption; Getting Personal; A visit to the foreclosure circus; Finding the perfect money match online; Spotting those zombie stocks
...MORELoan-modification firms wreak havoc; Can't find work? Try looking for cash.; Banks draft changes to overdraft fees; Painless spending can hurt pocketbooks; We demand plain vanilla products; Avoid being a freelance pushover; The former lives of steelworkers; Getting Personal; Second City's a big stage in their lives
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