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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.

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.

The headlines note that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.6%....

On yesterday's Marketplace Morning Report host Scott Jagow and I talked about one of the best ideas I've come across in dealing with families...

So far, I am in the camp that thinks much of the Wall Street whining and criticsim of Ben Bernanke this past month is misplaced. The Fed has been...

High school soccer champion Reyes Ventura badly wants to attend college, but government paperwork and a lack of money are holding him back. Paul Cuadros reports.

The House Ways and Means Committee is looking into whether the U.S. government should raise taxes on rich private-equity firms that go public to get richer. Commentator Glenn Hubbard says that would be a bad idea.

The National Football League season begins tonight, which means millions of fans playing fantasy football leagues are back in action as well. Business-of-sports expert Diana Nyad talks with Kai Ryssdal about the reality involved.

The European Central Bank's decision to keep its benchmark interest rate at 4% is making bankers and investors anxious that this fall might be worse than this summer. Stephen Beard reports.