Savings

Question: I am a student right now. My husband left me with our two small children a year and a half ago, and I had no money and no job. I enrolled…

Companies have long mastered the art of triggering an impulse buy. From the grocery store to the shopping mall, companies are really good at…

We're starting our series on life through a financial lens at our teens. Tess Vigeland talks to the New York Times's Ron Lieber about a teenager who's trying to balance financial responsibility and college debt.

The new yuan-denominated accounts at the Bank of China in New York and California are the latest sign of the end of dollar dominance.

Sean Cole's story on the Facebook app Double Down Casino got us to thinking about… gambling and personal finance. What else? It turns out a lot…

All right, take out your No.2 pencils….

Host Tess Vigeland and senior producer Deborah Clark dig in the Marketplace Money mail bag and respond to listener comments.

Pre-paid college tuition plans were created to help save parents' bank accounts from the inflation of college costs. But several states are abandoning the pre-paid programs or making big adjustments to them — and parents are wondering what happens next.