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Art meets business
| Jun 6, 2005One Hollywood producer wants to teach kids how to avoid the starving artist stereotype. He's starting a new charter school in LA that'll give artistic students a healthy dose of business sense.
The Sloan Sessions
| Jun 6, 2005Allan Sloan is the Wall Street editor for Newsweek magazine. He talks about the news from Wall Street with host Kai Ryssdal.
Teen job prospects down this summer
| Jun 6, 2005A study out today from Northeastern University says this will be the bleakest summer season for jobseeking teenagers since 1948. Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner reports that many young people really needed that paycheck.
The "Buzzword": Goldilocks Economy
| Jun 3, 2005Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Sound Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance - "Goldilocks Economy." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
"Day in the Work Life": A Voice Instructor
| Jun 3, 2005The theater world gets its moment in the spotlight Sunday night with the Tony awards. So on this week's A Day In the Work Life...our regular look at how folks trade their time for money...we put the spotlight on a voice teacher.
The Mailbag for June 3, 2005
| Jun 3, 2005Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers more of your burning money questions. This week: advice on creating a personalized retirement account, gifting stocks and bonds, and improving a credit score.
Chris Farrell with the "Straight Story": Health Care Reform
| Jun 3, 2005It's time once again for economics editor Chris Farrell to help you sort out what's smart, what's stupid and what's the Straight Story. This week: Chris sends an SOS to Congress.
From the Money Matters Desk: Nice Girls Don't Get Rich
| Jun 3, 2005Lois Frankel, author of "Nice Girls Don't Get Rich," stops by to share tips from her new book. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes women make with money.
Pharming... A New Kind of Phraud
| Jun 3, 2005You've heard about phishing, where Internet scammers lure you into giving them personal information? Well, that's just so last month. Now there's a whole new game in town. Kevin Delaney of <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> discusses the latest internet con... pharming.
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