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"Day in the Work Life": Zamboni Driver
Apr 2, 2005
Next Thursday, Minnesota, North Dakota, Colorado College, and Denver College will play in College Hockey's Frozen Four Championship. On this week's installment of 'A Day In the Work Life'...our regular look at how folks trade time for money...we take to the ice with the guy who drives the Zamboni.
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The "Buzzword": Tax Gap
Apr 2, 2005
Life 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 - "Tax Gap." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
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Being the Market
Apr 2, 2005
This was a week of economic numbers. Fourth quarter gross domestic product came in at 3-point-8 percent. The Labor Department reported the economy added 110,000 jobs in March. Wall Street, of course, reacted way before those numbers went public. Case in point... last week, the dollar rallied against the euro and the yen. Exactly how does that happen? Economy dot com's Mark Zandi explains.
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The week that was on Wall Street
Apr 1, 2005
It's Friday, which means it is time to check the week on Wall Street with stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson in Dallas.
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Show me the (settlement) money
Mar 31, 2005
Remember the name Jack Grubman? The telecom stock analyst accused of touting AT&T so his kids could get into a swank pre-school? It was one of many stories about skewed stock advice from analysts who had a little skin in the game. These conflict-of-interest stories led to lawsuits. And huge settlements. One involved ten banks paying almost $1.5 billion. The biggest settlement in Wall Street history. A good portion of the money was supposed to go to investors, to compensate them for the fraud. But as Marketplace's Amy Scott tells us, almost two years later, investors are still waiting.
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Doctors and salaries - name your price?
Mar 31, 2005
To become a doctor, you spend so much time in the tunnels of preparation, that it's a shock. You find yourself at the other end with someone shaking your hand, asking how much money you want to make. That's how Atul Gawander begins his article for the New Yorker magazine. It's the story of a career turning point. After eight years as a resident in surgery - making $40,000 a year or so, came the fateful day. Gawander took a seat in the wood paneled office of the chairman of surgery at a Boston hospital. Congratulations, Dr. Gawander, you're a now surgeon with a staff position, he said. Now how much shall we pay you?
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Mortgage rates - to refinance or not to refinance?
Mar 31, 2005
Mortgage rates have skyrocketed the last few weeks, meaning bad news for anyone who wanted to refinance. Host Tess Vigeland talks to Bankrate.com's Greg McBride about how you know when to pull the trigger on something as unpredictable as mortgage rates.
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United Way, and a united way of increasing donations
Mar 30, 2005
The United Way of America is holding its annual leadership conference near Dallas. Though overall charitable giving is up, donations to the United Way are down. That's where the group's new "Standards of Excellence" come in. These guidelines were announced today. They're supposed to help local chapters define their mission and improve accountability. Marketplace Business Editor Cheryl Glaser tells us it's a sign of how more non-profits are taking their cues from the corporate world.
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The Child Well-Being Index is on the rise
Mar 30, 2005
Another way of looking at how our kids are doing was released today. It's called the "Child Well-Being Index". It's an annual report put out by the Foundation for Child Development. The index compares the latest statistics on kids... with data from the mid-70s. That's when many of today's parents were young. A time they might remember as one of safer streets, stronger families, better schools. But as Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner reports, in some ways, these are the "good old days"...
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Poverty and the language barrier - education is the key
Mar 30, 2005
There's a well-established link between poverty and education levels. But what about poverty and language? Researchers in Santa Ana, California, are looking into that connection. Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner explains why immigrants are being encouraged to talk to their kids... any way they know how.
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