Marketplace Money Stories

Shawnette Daniel talks with Tess Vigeland about her unemployment benefits, which are almost running out.

Marketplace Money reviews a new listings website for people who will do just about anything for five bucks.

Why do some investors choose to ignore the personal finance information that says not to sell when stock market prices are low? Sally Herships investigates the psychology behind the low seller.

The College Board's Patricia Steele talks with Steve Chiotakis about students who borrow more than they can handle paying back.

Doug Gates, founder of the new website MoxyVote, talks to Steve Chiotakis about how his site can help even small shareholders make a difference in the companies in which they invest.

Liz Pulliam Weston of MSN Money joins Steve Chiotakis to answer listener questions, including one from a guy who doesn't plan to retire, and wonders what his financial planning should look like in that scenario, and a woman who can't wait to retire but wonders whether to sell or rent her house.

Commentator Meghan Daum argues one of life's simple pleasures is daydreaming about what you don't have in life.

Janet Bodnar, an editor at Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, talks with Steve Chiotakis about the recent survey they conducted about how families are handling their money since the economic downturn.

Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, talks to Steve Chiotakis about what the government's homebuyer's tax credit has done for the housing market.

Tess Vigeland and financial planner Karen Ramsey explore the coffee obsession continually brewing in Seattle with a visit to Pike Place Market.