Jan 22, 2010

Marketplace Money for January 22, 2010

Each week on Marketplace Money, host Tess Vigeland looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet.

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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

Consumer protection agency's standing

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Will the government follow through on its promise to create a consumer protection agency? Elizabeth Warren, professor of law at Harvard University and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, talks to Tess Vigeland about why she still has hope for the agency and what scrapping it could mean for consumers.

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FHA insured mortgages to cost more

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Here's another wrinkle for new homebuyers: You'll have to pay more for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration. The FHA says it had to toughen the rules because too many of its loans were going bad. Markeplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer explains.

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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

The new breed of perma-renters

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

The down economy has spawned a new breed of financially mature specimens, the perma-renter. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.

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China's next export: group shopping?

by Scott Tong

Jan 22, 2010

A new way to bargain hunt -- "tuangou," or group shopping -- is catching on in China, and it could hit the U.S. next. Scott Tong reports.

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Getting Personal

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Jim Juback, blogger at Jubakpicks.com, joins Tess Vigeland to tackle investment basics, then they take on whether an investor can get E-Trade to wave inactivity fees.

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Auto retailers race for customers

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Phil Reed, senior consumer advice editor at Edmunds.com, fills Tess Vigeland in on the deals auto retailers are doling out in an effort to lure customers.

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Fallout: The Financial Crisis

Consumers ending love affair with debt

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Americans are spending less, saving more and finally striking a balance, so argues Marketplace's Chris Farrell, author of the new book, "The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better."

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I'd rather be frugal than hip

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Youth Radio's Summer Sewell talks about how she's not concerned with keeping up with the latest trend, unless it involves frugality.

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Dear Prudence: Wedding gift etiquette?

by Marketplace Staff

Jan 22, 2010

Emily Yoffe, aka Slate.com's advice columnist "Prudence," talks to Tess Vigeland about how to politely handle the art of wedding gift giving.

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Each week on Marketplace Money, host Tess Vigeland looks at the week's major national and international stories that will impact the average listener's wallet.