Marketplace Money Stories

Robert Spector, author of "The Mom & Pop Store," talks with Tess Vigeland about why that small store down the street is doing pretty well in this recession.

Listeners chime in on everything from the new credit card rules, to Tess Vigeland singing in tune.

Condominiums depend on owners of their units chipping in for common expenses like fixing the roof. But what happens when the deadbeat owner next door is a major bank. Ashley Gross reports.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has announced that interest rates will stay low for a while. That's good news for borrowers, but what about savers? Marketplace's John Dimsdale has some ideas that might be of greater interest for them.

Will credit card reform have a long-term effect on our behavior as consumers? Tess Vigeland talks with Wall Street historian John Steele Gordon.

Portland's sketch comedy troupe Live Wire perform an imagined phone call from a credit card company.

Personal finance writer Beth Kobliner and her teenage daughter Becca talk about how they find a middle ground between mom's old school rules and today's teen pressures revolving credit cards.

Scott Talbott of Financial Services Roundtable, a banking industry organization, tells Tess Vigeland how credit card companies feel about the CARD Act.

MSN Money columnist Liz Pulliam Weston joins Tess Vigeland to take listeners' questions about their relationship with plastic.

Commentator Chris Farrell says if you don't carry a balance on your credit cards, you don't have to worry about what the card companies do.