Marketplace Money for Friday, Sept. 7, 2007

Segments From This Episode

• Got any good stock tips? No, really . . .

  by Amy Scott

  With so much information available on your investments, finding reliable data can be a bewildering task. And now, many major brokerages are making some research less available to the public. Amy Scott reports.

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• Mailbag for Friday, Sept. 7, 2007

  by Tess Vigeland and Chris Farrell

  

  This week, Chris Farrell's advice on investing in penny stocks, using an open check from a credit card company, and keeping open old checking accounts.

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• Summer School: Graduation

  by Marketplace Staff

  With September's arrival comes our last summer school class. Dust off that syllabus you got the first day and let's see if you paid attention.

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• Day in the Work Life: Goalkeeper

  by Marketplace Staff

  With all the attention David Beckham has gotten lately, some may have forgotten there are 10 other players on the field. This week, we turn a much-deserved spotlight on the L.A. Galaxy's goalie.

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• Buzzword: LIBOR

  by Marketplace Staff

  This week, the LIBOR rose to a six-year high. And if you have an adjustable-rate mortgage, you know that's not a good thing.

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• Why don’t you write us?

  by Tess Vigeland

  

  Every month, we go over listener comments about the show. This month, Tess Vigeland gets responses on an old debt, the expertise of members in our investment club series and an engineering versus a liberal arts education.

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• Straight Story: Improving our health care

  by Chris Farrell and Tess Vigeland

  

  Presidential candidates are saying that we have the "best health care system in the world." Chris Farrell says we should make that statement true — through universal health care.

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• Navigating tax policy change

  by Tess Vigeland

  

  President Bush recently announced that he'd push for at least a temporary change in tax policy to help homeowners who either short sell or foreclose on their homes. Tess Vigeland finds out more with Los Angeles Times personal finance writer Kathy Kristof.

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• Educating Rico: How to re-fi

  by Marketplace Staff

  This week, the Fed issued new guidance for lenders to help homeowners re-finance their mortgages. But you can't re-fi if you barely know what it means. On this installment Educating Rico, Rico Gagliano learns how a re-fi works — and why sometimes, it doesn't.

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• It takes a village to nurture a retiree

  by Marketplace Staff

  Communities of retirees have sprung up as a desirable alternative to giving up homeownership for senior living. Wren Elhai visits with one new village member in Washington, D.C.

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