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Getting Personal: Investing, life insurance, magazine subscriptions
Sep 22, 2011
Tess Vigeland and L.A. Times columnist David Lazarus offer advice on bogus magazine subscriptions, life insurance policies, and answer questions involving investing and debt.
Piggy Award: Business professor learns a lesson
Sep 22, 2011
This week's Marketplace Money Piggy Award goes to a business professor in Atlanta, Ga., who learned an important lesson about being cheated by her bank.
Consumer spending up 0.7% in February
Sep 22, 2011
The Commerce Department is reporting that U.S. consumer spending rose 0.7 percent in February, the largest increase since October.
The financial challenges gay couples face
Tara Siegel Bernard Sep 22, 2011
The New York Times' Tara Siegel Bernard discusses the financial and legal issues gay couples face through the example of Amanda and Kay Shelton, a lesbian couple living in Michigan.
Looking to the financial future in your 50s
Carmen Wong Ulrich Sep 22, 2011
Personal finance journalist Carmen Wong Ulrich discusses planning your financial future in your 50s using the example of Marina Sturm, a professor and musician who is looking to organize her finances.
Getting Personal: Money and babies, debt collection
Tess Vigeland Sep 22, 2011
Tess Vigeland and MSN personal finance columnist Liz Pulliam Weston answer your questions about financially preparing and protecting your little ones and debt-collecting etiquette.
How to financially prepare for disasters
Tess Vigeland Sep 22, 2011
People are thinking more about disaster preparedness since the tsunami in Japan. Tess Vigeland talks to Candysse Miller of the Insurance Information Network of California about how to prepare a disaster financial plan.
Suze Orman's 'New American Dream'
Tess Vigeland Sep 22, 2011
The new American Dream means no debt, living below your means and within your needs, and getting the same pleasure out of savings as you do from spending. Personal finance maven Suze Orman explains in an interview with Tess Vigeland.
Explaining financial behavior on a napkin
Mar 11, 2011
Tess Vigeland talks to Carl Richards about the simple napkin drawings he uses to explain our complicated relationships with money.
The tax apps cometh
Steve Henn Mar 10, 2011
If your plans for this weekend include digging through a shoebox full of receipts and collecting all your tax forms, we have news. This year, you may be able to do some or even all of your tax prep work on your smartphone.
