Taking the trash out. Making the bed. Cleaning the dishes. Some kids have to do chores to get an allowance. Others get a monthly stipend just for being them. Reporter Rachel Dornhelm went in search of what kids want when it comes to an allowance.

Prince Charles took a ride in a London taxi last week. It marked the first time he'd ever set foot in a traditional cab. On this week's installment of 'A Day In the Work Life', our weekly look at how people trade their time for money, we also investigate life inside a yellow cab.

Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Sound Money will bring you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance: "The Humphrey-Hawkins Address." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?

This week, soaring corporate profits and dividend payouts dominated Wall Street. Kai translates the news with Diane Swonk, chief economist at Bank One Corporation.