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Marketplace Money is on hiatus this week

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Daryl Paranada
Sep 28, 2012
We're in San Diego working hard to bring you a special show set to air next week on the tough choices poor people have to make.
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Health care and consumer spending

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Chris Farrell
Jun 27, 2012
A big chunk of "consumer spending" is really money we spend on health care.
Posted In: healthcare, healthcare spending, consumer finances
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Making progress on household debt

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Chris Farrell
Jun 25, 2012
The good news: Households are reducing debts. The bad news: There remains a considerable way to go.
Posted In: Mortgages, household debt, Economy, income, loans
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Handguns and the economics of safety

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Jun 22, 2012
Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland heads to the shooting range to learn about the cost of gun ownership and home safety (and takes on a zombie while she's at it)
Posted In: gun, safety, personal security
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Charitable giving hangs on

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Chris Farrell
Jun 20, 2012
Charitable giving adds up to 2 percent of real gross domestic product, down from a recent peak of 2.3 percent in 2001.
Posted In: Charitable giving
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What are high fees costing you?

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Chris Farrell
Jun 19, 2012
A theme of these blog posts is that fees matter when it comes to investment returns.
Posted In: fees, investment fees, retirement savings plan, Calculators
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Happy (Financial) Independence Day

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Tess Vigeland
Jun 18, 2012
Marketplace Money wants to know: What makes you feel financially independent?
Posted In: question, financial independence
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Global turmoil and retirement planning

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Chris Farrell
Jun 13, 2012
What should investors -- especially those in their 50s and 60s -- do with their already diminished retirement savings?
Posted In: retirement savings, Investing, Savings, inflation, Economy
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A bleak household financial picture

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Chris Farrell
Jun 11, 2012
The financial toll on families from the dreadful economy of recent years is enormous.
Posted In: debt, Savings, net worth, family finances, student loans
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The mobile Internet economy

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Chris Farrell
May 31, 2012
The troubled Facebook IPO is casting a pall over high tech (wrongly, I think). The signal moment for the emergence of an even larger digital economy wasn't Facebook. It was Apple's iPad. It's the visible symbol of the rapid embrace of wireless data -- video, images, content, data and communication -- throughout the global economy. A safe forecast: The mobile Internet will transform personal finance.
Posted In: Internet, smartphones, digital, Personal Finance, borrow, health care, pets
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Marketplace Money is on hiatus this week

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Daryl Paranada
Sep 28, 2012
We're in San Diego working hard to bring you a special show set to air next week on the tough choices poor people have to make.
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Health care and consumer spending

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Chris Farrell
Jun 27, 2012
A big chunk of "consumer spending" is really money we spend on health care.
Posted In: healthcare, healthcare spending, consumer finances
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Marketplace Money is on hiatus this week

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Daryl Paranada
Sep 28, 2012
We're in San Diego working hard to bring you a special show set to air next week on the tough choices poor people have to make.
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Health care and consumer spending

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Chris Farrell
Jun 27, 2012
A big chunk of "consumer spending" is really money we spend on health care.
Posted In: healthcare, healthcare spending, consumer finances
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Host Tess Vigeland and the Marketplace Money team present Making Money, a blog about personal finance, the economy, and the making of our weekly radio show. Visit our show page, listen to the latest episode, or subscribe to the podcast. Plus, find answers to your personal finance questions on topics from saving for retirement to bankruptcy in the Getting Personal blog.

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