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  • The latest European trend arriving in the U.S.: allowing shareholders to vote on executive pay packages. As Ashley Milne-Tyte reports, investors are eager to make themselves heard.

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  • The Federal Reserve recently proposed tough new rules for the credit card industry. Now Congress wants its turn. Tess speaks with Congressman Barney Frank.

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  • Apr 26, 2008

    Letters

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    Tess reads your letters. This month: Greenspan bashing, walking away from mortgages, a bad night in Vegas and revisiting the "magic age."

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  • The Internet lets us manage our own travel plans, but it's not always that easy or cheap. Tess asks Scott McCartney when it's best to leave things to the professionals.

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  • Life's tough for the carless and gas prices are stinging car owners. Brendan Newnam learns how both sides can get a bargain by turning to Craigslist.

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  • On this week's "A Day In the Work Life," we meet Deb Cage, a hairdresser with a unique salon that helps those for whom a haircut is usually out of reach.

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  • Apr 26, 2008

    Getting Personal

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    In this edition of Getting Personal, Chris and Tess talk about property values, dealing with a collection agency, savings bonds and switching life insurance.

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  • The average college textbook bill is pushing $1,000 a year. Jill Barshay tells us how students and professors are dodging high prices.

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  • A graduation cap with money symbolizes student loans
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    Student loan rates may reset to new lows in July, but as Stacey Vanek-Smith explains, deciding to consolidate now or after the rate change involves rolling the dice.

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  • In this time of uncertainty, Tess turns to financial heavyweight John Bogle for some common sense advice on weathering this economic storm.

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