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  • Getting Personal
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    Tess Vigeland and MSN personal finance columnist Liz Pulliam Weston answer your questions about financially preparing and protecting your little ones and debt-collecting etiquette.

  • A man walks along a street through debris and past destroyed buildings in Kamaishi town in Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan.
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    People are thinking more about disaster preparedness since the tsunami in Japan. Tess Vigeland talks to Candysse Miller of the Insurance Information Network of California about how to prepare a disaster financial plan.

  • Financial guru Suze Orman.
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    The new American Dream means no debt, living below your means and within your needs, and getting the same pleasure out of savings as you do from spending. Personal finance maven Suze Orman explains in an interview with Tess Vigeland.

  • Marketplace's Sean Cole looks at a game where people use real money to place bets, even they know they'll never, ever win.

  • Americans are more pessimistic than ever about their prospects for a comfortable retirement, according to a new survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer explains why.

  • Kelly Raver shares some of the sentimental items in her wallet that reminds her of the hardships she emerged from years before.

  • The shadow of a house key falls over a mortgage application form.
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    Tess Vigeland talks to Jean Constantine-Davis, a lawyer with the AARP Foundation, about the AARP's lawsuit against the U.S. housing department.

  • Retirement egg
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    Tess Vigeland talks to Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary about what people should be aware of when they receive advice on their 401(k) plans.

  • Many banks are cutting interest rates for their best credit customers, but for most of the population, credit is still hard to come by. One option for some in California is a fast growing company that offers loans to low income Latinos.

  • A man shows off some of his credit cards.
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    Are you one of the lucky ones? Bank of America so far is the only card company who's admitted publicly of lowering rates. Reporter Stacey Vanek Smith says this may be a sign that credit card issuers are loosening up.