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  • Eating better is a common New Year's resolution. And that starts at the grocery store. Should you be filling your cart with organic products? Marketplace's Alisa Roth goes shopping.

  • It's a popular personal finance mantra: diversify, diversify, diversity. Are you as diversified as you think? Steve Tripoli reports.

  • Does it seem like you've been getting a lot of e-mails promising hot new stock tips lately? You're probably going to see more and more of this spam filling up your inbox — because it's working. Amy Scott reports.

  • Economist Burton Malkiel's book, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," is a must-read for the average investor. The newest edition comes out in January. He joins Kai for a walking of Wall Street.

  • Congress passed a tax increase in May that's expected to rake in big bucks for the government — but it could backfire. U.S. businesses worry it'll hurt their ability to employee Americans oversees. Miranda Kennedy reports.

  • On this week's 'A Day In the Work Life'…our regular look at how folks trade time for money… we set a tune with a jingle writer.

  • 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 — "January Effect." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?

  • Associate Producer Rico Gagliano is back with another installment of our series, Educating Rico. This time, our hero buys a used car. And he brakes for the bad news.

  • A lot of Americans dream of a better job. So a growing number of older workers have decided to make that dream a reality. From Interlochen Public Radio, Tom Kramer reports.

  • Dec 16, 2006

    The tip off

    Here's another thing you might have to budget for this holiday season: tips. Jeff Tyler reports.

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