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  • Elizabeth Lord and her 8-year-old son, Xander, talk about their allowance system, which taught him about paying back what he got on credit.

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  • Before Donald Faison became a star on the hit TV series "Scrubs," he was a struggling actor clueless about money. Faison talks with Tess Vigeland about the money lessons he has learned over the years.

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  • Tess Vigeland lets listeners do the talking by airing their opinions about a couple who worked off $100,000 in debt, the freelance life, and why credit cards cause us to spend more money.

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  • Tess Vigeland talks to Stuart Ritter, a financial planner with T. Rowe Price, about what people in their 20s should be doing with their money after seeing the recent downturn in the markets.

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  • Oct 17, 2009

    Getting Personal

    Tess Vigeland and Kiplinger's Kim Lankford tackle listeners' questions about employers' 401(k) contributions, how to make the most out of selling a rental property, and more.

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  • WEB EXCLUSIVE: Forget the Nobel Prize for economics, Marketplace's Chris Farrell wants to hand out his own award: The Marketplace Money Prize in Personal Finance. And the winner is …

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  • Elderly immigrants are being forced to postpone retirement because of the recession. But they're having trouble finding work, and get little in the way of government assistance. Jeff Tyler reports.

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  • Tess Vigeland talks to banking analyst Karen Petrou about the continuing banking crisis and whether the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is healthy enough to cover failed banks.

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  • When the economy tanked, government workers watched their pension funds dwindle. Now, in an effort to recover the cash, some funds are resorting to the kind of risky investments that led to the financial crisis in the first place.

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  • Watch Marketplace Morning Report host Bill Radke cram all the week's business news into a 60-second poem.

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