Marketplace®

Daily business news and economic stories
  • Question: I'm an active-duty Air Force officer, and my wife and I are debating college-savings strategies for our son (1 yr old) and any other kids…

  • Question: Hi Chris – my wife and I are considering taking out a small home equity loan or line of credit for a home project ($6-7K). We have plenty…

  • Question: My husband and I are in our 30s and we have a young son. My husband worked as a high school science teacher and I'm a museum curator. We…

  • May 31, 2011

    Gold and taxes

    Question: I've been fortunate to have put a bit of money into a gold ETF (GLD, for the record), one of the ones that actually just buys bullion,…

  • Question: I am about three years from retirement. I am fortunate to have, at least for the moment, a good retirement system from which to draw and…

  • Question: I will retire at the end of this year but my intentions are to work somewhere else full-time and invest that entire paycheck in something…

  • Question: My wife and I are in our early fifties and are planning/hoping to retire in 8-10 years. After using a few of the retirement calculators…

  • May 24, 2011

    Parents and money

    Question: My name is Vicki and I am 23 years old. I am married and my husband is currently in grad school. I am employed and am making enough to…

  • Question: I have always been a very conservative investor (nothing more adventurous than shopping for CD rates). I'm retired and have sufficient…

  • Question: Recently I've read doom and gloom predictions about the US economy crashing into a depression as bad or worse as the 1930's due to the…