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  • Jul 30, 2011

    A 15% society?

    The curtain can't go down fast enough on the summer theater of the absurd over the federal debt and deficit in Washington D.C. The apocalyptic…

  • Washington must be another world. The vituperative battle over raising the debt limit makes no sense when the U.S. economy is so fragile. The…

  • **Question: **I have a 401k through my job that matches 6% of my contributions. Additionally, I have a Roth IRA that was opened some years ago but…

  • Millions of Americans are struggling to save more. The high unemployment of the past several years has convinced us that we need to shore up our…

  • We all know that income inequality has been widening in recent decades. Less appreciated yet even more disturbing over the long run is increasing…

  • On this weekend's Marketplace Money show, reporter Adriene Hill shared with Tess Vigeland all the different parts of yourself that you can sell…

  • A year ago President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank financial services regulatory overhaul. It was the most ambitious and controversial…

  • Jul 23, 2011

    The joy of cash

    These are unsettling times….

  • For a number of near-retirees the prospect of moving overseas after saying goodbye to workmates for the last time is alluring….

  • It looks like the current economic turmoil has undermined another hopeful trend. This time it's home remodeling. The housing market at best is sunk…