Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers more of your burning money questions. This week: advice on selecting long term care insurance, using emergency savings to buy a big ticket item, and buying a house with 401k money.
It'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 explains the conundrum behind long-term interest rates.
Congressional leaders agree the alternative minimum tax needs reform. Changing the tax code could cost the government billions of dollars. Marketplace's John Dimsdale reports.
Over the next 12 weeks, Medicare officials will mail out applications to seniors for the new prescription drug benefit. Also adding to the demand for prescription drugs: an aging demographic. There'll need to be people to fill those prescriptions, too. All this may help explain what's behind one of the hottest degree programs. From WBHM in Birmingham, Alabama, Tanya Ott reports.
Kids today have lots of choices when they go the school cafeteria. But the fare is often pizza, burgers, fries, and cookies. With childhood obesity on the rise, state legislatures are trying to get cafeterias to serve healthier food. But, as Nancy Marshall Genzer reports, some schools are dragging their feet, because junk food helps them balance the books.
You pay your money on Wall Street, you take your chances. There are after all no sure things in investing. But some things are a good deal less sure than others. For example, hedge funds. Here's Chris Farrell.
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