Marketplace Money Stories

Tess Vigeland and MSN columnist Liz Pulliam Weston answer your questions about balancing your checkbook in the age of the Internet, finding debt relief and lending clubs.

Tess Vigeland talks to the L.A. Times' David Lazarus about savings for early retirement and shoebox finances.

As we come across another holiday season, a new study reveals that consumers plan on holding back from using credit cards. Is this really true? Nancy Marshall Genzer investigates.

Fort McMurray, Alberta may be the only town that breathed a sigh of relief when the recession came. Fort McMurray is a modern day boomtown that's struggling to keep up with near 10 percent a year growth and the flood of money from the nearby oil sands.

Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson reports on another recession — the one hitting African Americans. The recession hit African Americans more acutely, because of factors such as less savings and higher incarceration rates, which deters many from looking for jobs.

Social media more often seems to be a way to get kicked out of a job — unseemly photos, an off-color post — but some job-seekers are using it to land their dream jobs.

It's trendy to be frugal now — canning your own jellies, altering your own clothes — but commentator Gustavo Arellano reminds listeners that Mexicans were being frugal long before the recession.

It can become expensive for a company to provide health insurance for unhealthy workers. So in efforts to keep employees healthy — and cheap — some are providing some extra incentives.

Confusion about health care is nothing new, but now there is a growing industry trying to ease that confusion. Reporter Joel Rose has a profile of one such person.