Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Marketplace Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance, "Earmark." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
Our economics editor Chris Farrell answers your burning money questions. This week, advice on investing in a health savings account, teaching stocks and bonds to young investors and using a 1031 exchange.
The Supreme Court declined to hear two pension cases involving age discrimination at IBM. Pension consultant Jeremy Gold explains how the decision might change the retirement landscape.
It's back, and not better than ever. Investors are once again being lured into day trading. Tess Vigeland talks with Walter Hamilton of the Los Angeles Times.
Consumers can't often find a human on the other end of a customer service call, but that might soon change. Host Tess Vigeland checks out a service allowing you to skip the automated phone tree.
Add doctor's visits to the long list of things we can do online. Helen Palmer reports on patients who are accessing their medical records and getting prescriptions filled without going in for a check-up.
Bad financial decisions don't just happen to inexperienced investors. A new study says financially literate folks can suffer the same fate. Marketplace's Steve Tripoli reports.
This week, we begin a special series on investment clubs in America. Marketplace's Tess Vigeland takes us on a tour of clubs in California, Washington, and Virginia. Meet folks who eat, drink and merrily beat the pants off the S&P 500.
Hybrid models can cost a little more, but according to a new survey, the returns might be worth the initial cost. Kai interviews James Bell of Intellichoice.
