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A new company is trying to get between your bank and your financial apps

by Justin Ho
May 16, 2019
Fidelity's parent company is trying to give customers a little more control over what data the apps can retrieve.
Many people enjoy the flexibility of working from home, but are they home?
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How are you feeling about the economy?

by Marketplace Staff
Mar 1, 2019
Share your thoughts with us.
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Divided Decade: Financial crisis yields lasting pain and new possibilities

by Tommy Andres and Hayley Hershman
Dec 21, 2018
We gathered your stories for a year. Here's what we learned.
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Which economic stats matter most?

by Mitchell Hartman
Jul 9, 2018
Our listener asks which economic statistics are the best predictors of future economic performance.
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The best personal finance books for recent college grads

by Ali Oshinskie and David Brancaccio
May 18, 2018
Marketplace contributor Chris Farrell shares some of his recommendations.
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Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis explains how the debt crisis was a Greek tragedy

by David Brancaccio
Nov 3, 2017
"When you treat one European people as expendable and as collateral damage in a kind of war, a dirty war...you're condemning Europe to constant fragmentation and disintegration at the economic, financial and moral level."
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks at the official launch of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.
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The plot thickens around the Fed's "dot plot"

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Sep 18, 2017
The Fed's graph of members' interest rates projections for times a year is a closely watched indicator on Wall Street
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New Yorkers want to know: What’s your cybersecurity plan?

by Tracey Samuelson
Aug 29, 2017
There are some new regulations going into effect for financial institutions licensed by the state of New York this week. That’s for some banks, big insurance companies and all kinds of financial firms. The rules are about cybersecurity, specifically. They require companies to hire a chief information security officer, to report data breaches within 72 […]
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Who are the unbanked?

by David Brancaccio
Jun 29, 2017
Income volatility is increasingly driving low- and middle-income Americans to check cashers and payday lenders.
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After almost 10 years of shopping, the Fed gets ready to shrink its assets

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 15, 2017
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday discussed the Fed’s plans for its balance sheet. That’s the list of all the assets it owns, and it is huge: $4.5 trillion worth. The plan is to slowly shrink that down by a few billion dollars a month, starting soon. Here’s how the Fed came to own […]
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