09/29/06
Marketplace Money for September 29, 2006
Episode Description:
Marketplace Money for September 29, 2006
To view this content, Javascript must be enabled and Adobe Flash Player must be installed.
0
Bugs for retirement
There are plenty of ways to save for retirement. Pick an index fund. Or use a Roth. But what about a safety net of classic VW Bugs? Tom Kramer has the story.
0
Easy ways to diversify your portfolio
It's a popular personal finance mantra: diversify, diversify, diversity. Are you as diversified as you think? Steve Tripoli reports.
0
Straight Story: Corporate report card
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. It was a big week for corporate criminals. Chris surveys the landscape.
0
Day in the Work Life: Ad woman
On this week's A Day in the Work Life, our look at how folks trade their time for money, we spread the word with a performance marketer.
0
Buzzword: Competitiveness index
Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Marketplace Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance, competitiveness index. You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
0
Mailbag for Friday, September 29, 2006
Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers your burning money questions. This week, advice on becoming a contract worker, paying down student loans and building a home.
0
Money Matters: A road trip home
August brought lower home prices, but not low enough for one author. Karrie Jacobs went in search of the perfect $100,000 pad. 14,000 miles later, did she find it? Kai talks with Karrie.
0
Pumping your pocketbook
Oil prices keep dipping and the price at the pump is slowly following. Can declining energy prices really make a difference in your household? Kai interviews Severin Borenstein, the director of the University of California Energy Institute.
0
Medical ID theft
Identity theft isn't only about credit cards. Your medical records can fall into the wrong hands. How do you protect yourself? Kai talks with Joseph Menn of the Los Angeles Times.
Browse the show calendar
Buzzworthy
Recent comments on our stories..
High-frequency trading: Bad for markets... and the soul?
Hi,
First I'd like to thank everyone for listening to what I had to say, it's really an honor to have been on marketplace. Second...
Nick Hanauer on the TED talk, income inequality controversy
If the idea of "trickle-down economics" hasn't worked---when governments have actually *tried* it, rather than a form they...
kingjon | May 18, 2012 Time to bring back Glass-Steagall?
I can finally agree with Robert Reich100%. To our detriment, banks have forgotten that there is a difference between manipulating money, and...
pauliswood | May 16, 2012 Hey brogrammer, let's crush some code
So happy to see this being spoken about openly. Most forms of tech are tainted by this problem in one way or another. I would venture to say that...
Antos101 | May 16, 2012
Connect
Submit your Personal Finance Questions to the Getting Personal blog.
BECOME A MARKETPLACE SOURCE!
Join the Public Insight Network and help us
tell the story.
Sign Up Now or browse recent questions from
the Network below.
