It seems like all personal finance is anymore is getting out of credit card debt. Chris Farrell sets the story straight on the unfair practices of credit cards companies.
The mailbox is bursting with your comments. This month: your thoughts on "Consumed", mileage runners, the cause of the mortgage crisis, mortgage resets and home swappers.
Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers your burning money questions. This week: getting started in investing, foreclosure, sticking to a budget and lending money to family.
On this week's "A Day in the Work Life," our regular look at how folks trade time for money, we go on the beat in our nation's capital with homicide detective Bill Xanten.
Looking to cut your energy bills? Act fast and you could cut your tax burden at the same time. Tess asks Andrea Coombes how to take advantage of deductions expiring in 2008.
In this mortgage mess, even a cautious homeowner can end up stuck with an impossible loan. Marketplace's Alisa Roth tells us what to do when you realize you're in over your head.
President Bush has announced his plan to help homeowners in crisis but is it too little too late? Tess asks Nick Retsinas at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.
The Labor Department released new unemployment numbers this morning, and then revised its original estimated number of new jobs by slashing them in half. But how good were the numbers to begin with? Dan Grech reports
