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  • On this week's A Day in the Work Life, our regular look at how folks trade time for money, we freestyle with a swim instructor.

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  • Two of the biggest credit bureau just changed their mortgage transaction rules. Get ready to pay more fees. Kai interviews Terry Clemans, the Executive Director of the National Credit Reporting Association.

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  • Reading a mutual fund prospectus requires Herculean skill. How else can you absorb the page after page of financial speak in really tiny print? But those documents might soon be a thing of the past. Bente Birkeland reports.

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  • Democrats want to reverse a bill that gave energy companies tax cuts and allowed them to skip paying royalties. Commentator David Frum agrees it was bad legislation, but he thinks Congress should stick with it.

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  • The Chinese government has approved one additional air route between the U.S. and Beijing or Shanghai. And the Department of Transportation is about to give it to one lucky airline. Ramy Inocencio reports.

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  • Ninety million Americans bank online. The federal government wants to make digital transactions safer. So why are banks moving slowly? Marketplace's Tess Vigeland explains.

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  • Financial laziness isn't always an investing sin. Lazy portfolios can offer big rewards. Kai talks to Financial Planner Jim Pinney.

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  • Eating better is a common New Year's resolution. And that starts at the grocery store. Should you be filling your cart with organic products? Marketplace's Alisa Roth goes shopping.

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  • This week Job Files takes us to meet a project manager whose job really is rocket science.

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  • Commentator Jeff Birnbaum says that, despite all their promises to clean up Washington, Democrats still value power over principle too.

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