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  • The last thing a student wants when they're applying for a loan is to have their information sold. But thanks to this week's buzzword, some lenders have found a new way to abuse power.

  • Chris Farrell enters wedding season with a plea for financial sanity.

  • Refusing to pay your taxes can cost you more than ever. Trey Kay talks to a woman who ignored her debt to Uncle Sam and finally came clean – for a price.

  • From consulting to carpentry, the market is fast growing for jobs that help the environment. And the money's not bad either. Sam Eaton looks into what it takes to go "green collar."

  • Taking out loans to pay for a college is a staple of higher education. And so is corruption.

  • Imagine taking all of the documents at your job and translating them into six different languages. That's a lot to conjugate.

  • Chris Farrell answers questions about consolidating debt, finding a financial planner and tracking down payment vouchers for the IRS.

  • Can students get more money out of their colleges than what they're first offered? Tess Vigeland finds out with Cindy Bailey of the College Board.

  • Get your tax refund yet? We hear what people are doing with that extra bit of money.

  • Take a sluggish economy, add rising prices and you've got what economists in the 1970s called "stagflation." And the word is making a comeback. Tess Vigeland talks to Zanny Minton-Beddoes from The Economist magazine.

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