What happens when a town's only major employer goes under? How do you position yourself for a job in the industry that replaces it? Folks in Kannapolis, N.C., are hoping a new biotech campus will bring the local job market back to life. Simone Orendain reports.
Commentator Vijay Vaitheeswaran calls on European leaders to rethink their cautious stance on Russian energy investment in advance of next month's G8 summit.
More than four million Americans live and work abroad. While Congress has cut taxes for most Americans, these expatriates have just gotten a tax hike. Commentator Tom Easton says it's a raw deal.
The state of Washington is boosting tax receipts and efficiency with a drive to weed out bureaucratic jargon in state correspondence. Austin Jenkins reports
Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Marketplace Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance, naked short selling. You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
Student loan rates go up July 1 so many borrowers are racing to consolidate before the deadline. Steve Tripoli investigates whether that's the right path for everyone — and tells us how to avoid some consolidation pitfalls.
