Marketplace Money Stories

Dec 23, 2011
Getting Personal: A look back over a long, hard year
A rare treat for listeners! Tess discusses the ins and outs of 2011 with all four of our regulars, Chris Farrell, Kathy Kristof, David Lazarus and Liz Weston.
Dec 23, 2011
Nonprofits using deals websites to find new donors
Nonprofits need money, deals websites e-mail people who want to spend money — it's a natural combination.
Dec 23, 2011
What makes us open our wallets
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What is it about consumers that drives us to want so much stuff? You could blame Madison Avenue, but marketers alone can't make us open up our wallets to spend. Tess talks with author James Roberts about why we buy.
Dec 21, 2011
What’s on the menu for next year?
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Tess talks with David Lazarus, Kathy Kristof, Liz Weston and Chris Farrell about what we might be able to expect in 2012.
Dec 20, 2011
More private money entering public schools
Taxpayers spend about $600 billion a year on K through 12 education. Philanthropists only spend around four billion. But they get a lot for their money.
Dec 16, 2011
Getting Personal: Power of attorney, hemorrhaging 401(k)s
Tess Vigeland and Marketplace's economics editor Chris Farrell answer listeners' personal finance questions.
Dec 16, 2011
Taking the Card Case out for a spin
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Tess takes her newly downloaded Card Case app for a spin into the real world.
Dec 16, 2011
Piggy Bank Award: For a year of sound advice
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We gathered our regular personal finance advisers to give the gift of saving.
Dec 15, 2011
The dog ate my paycheck
Commentator Rob Walker with an omnivore's dilemma. He doesn't eat everything in sight… but his dog does.
Dec 15, 2011
Cash-strapped Christmas
Unemployment and foreclosures have forced many more households to cut budgets to the bone this year. How some families are coping with the holidays now that they're no longer middle class.