Marketplace Money for August 24, 2007

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• Summer School: Bond price and yield

  by Marketplace Staff

  This week, we learn a little bit more about bonds — the difference between price and yield. At the blackboard this week, economist Greg McBride.

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• Wedding costs: Do I barf or laugh?

  by Marketplace Staff

  Perhaps the biggest party you'll ever throw is a wedding. Michelle Philippe is trying to keep things on track and the costs in line for her big day.

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• Terror-free investing

  by Tess Vigeland

  

  Socially responsible investing has been around for quite a while, but now there's a new kind of social investment taking shape — terrorism-free investing. Tess talks to Bob Frick from Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine.

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• Mailbag for Friday, August 24, 2007

  by Marketplace Staff

  Economics editor Chris Farrell is getting to your questions fast. In this week's speed-round mailbag, learn how to find a good financial planner, how long a company can pursue a consumer debt and what to do with thousands of dollars in student loans.

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• Buzzword: Payment-in-kind note

  by Marketplace Staff

  The rude awakening of the credit crunch brings us this week's term: Payment-in-kind note.

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• Day in the Work Life: Blind car salesman

  by Marketplace Staff

  We take a drive around the block with a used-car salesman who is really one-of-kind.

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• Proxy changes may impact shareholders

  by Amy Scott

  You know those proxy statements you get in the mail, if you own a stock or a mutual fund? Regulators are looking at a major overhaul of the system that allows stockholders to vote on company issues. But that has many shareholder advocates worried. Amy Scott reports.

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• The business of school fundraisers

  by Marketplace Staff

  The first day of school is almost here and, almost like clockwork, as soon as school starts so does the fundraising. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports on an ever-growing business.

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• Seattle investment club

  by Marketplace Staff

  Tess returns to Seattle to have a cup of coffee, see the Space Needle, and find out how the Meridian Pacific investment club has reacted to the recent drop in the stock market.

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• Straight Story

  by Chris Farrell and Tess Vigeland

  

  Chris Farrell says that if the student loan industry were graded for its effectiveness to students, it might have to repeat the class all over again.

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