Segments From This Episode

• What’s in your wallet, Brian Morton?

  by Marketplace Weekend Staff

  A professor keeps a few of his favorite things in his wallet: A gift card to a beer store and a photo of his wife from the first time he met her.

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• Branding yourself through social media

  by Marketplace Staff

  Marketing and career coach Tim Tyrell-Smith and host Tess Vigeland discuss how you can develop your own brand promise.

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• Renting: It’s a landlord’s market

  by Jennifer Collins

  With more renters crowding the market, the cost of rent is going up. Forget landlords offering free rent or a TV to get you to rent; renters have to appeal to landlords.

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• Getting Personal: Saving for grandchildren, retirement or a wedding?

  by Marketplace Staff

  Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland and Los Angeles Times' consumer columnist David Lazarus answer listener questions.

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• Letters: They don’t deserve another mortgage!

  by Marketplace Staff

  Tess Vigeland and producer Megan Larson go through the Money mailbag.

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• Making sense of home prices

  by Marketplace Staff

  We all know that a home's value is whatever a buyer and seller can agree on. But that doesn't stop us from sometimes wondering what it's worth or believing what we were seeing. So we invited Stan Humphries, Zillow.com's chief economist to explain it to us.

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• How the debt ceiling affects the average American

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  The congressional debate over whether to raise or not raise the federal debt ceiling may seem like a faraway battle. But Congress' decision will have a real impact on the pocketbooks of Americans.

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• One man’s junk is another man’s investment

  by Zac Bissonnette

  Author Zac Bissonnette argues why decorating his first place with used items is not only more interesting, but a better investment.

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