Businesses like Verizon know more about you than you think

Jun 6, 2013
The NSA order for Verizon's customer data highlights how much the private sector knows about their customers, and the restrictions on how they use it.

The high cost of personal safety

Jun 22, 2012
The cost of keeping yourself safe varies depending on what you feel is necessary to secure yourself and your property. Host Tess Vigeland learning about owning, and firing, a gun.
Tess prepares to confront a zombie at the LAX Firing Range in Los Angeles.

Handguns and the economics of safety

Jun 22, 2012
Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland heads to the shooting range to learn about the cost of gun ownership and home safety (and takes on a zombie while she's at it)

Your own private army

Jun 22, 2012
Private security expert Chris Simovich discusses the costs of hiring your own "posse."
A Secret Service agent keeps a watchful eye.
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