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)

Private security expert Chris Simovich discusses the costs of hiring your own "posse."

A father tackles the difficult question of how to dole out allowance to his children.

A Nebraska mother wins this week's Piggy Award for sharing how she taught her now-adult daughter how to save and spend.

I have $30,000 and want to know where best to put it. Ultimately, I want to put it away for my three boys' futures. I want it to make something, however slowly, without risk. But, 0.4 percent? Is that really the best I can do? Joanna, Hammond, IN

The former chairwoman of the FDIC talks about her new financial watchdog group, the Systemic Risk Council, and the state of the global financial industry.

Can you recommend a book on how to put yourself on a budget? Thank you, Elizabeth, Unionville, PA

Psychologist Michael Lennox discusses the meaning of money in your dreams.

The troubled Facebook IPO is casting a pall over high tech (wrongly, I think). The signal moment for the emergence of an even larger digital economy wasn't Facebook. It was Apple's iPad. It's the visible symbol of the rapid embrace of wireless data -- video, images, content, data and communication -- throughout the global economy. A safe forecast: The mobile Internet will transform personal finance.