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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. During the hour-long program, Vigeland and her guests help listeners map out the course to financial well-being, offering advice on topics like how to pay for college and whether to buy or lease a car as well as the individual impact of national stories.
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Latest Stories from Marketplace Money
Last updated: Saturday, June 02 2012 02:03 PM
An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details
Thursday, March 15 2012 06:53 PM
The monologist Mike Daisey’s account of Chinese factory conditions in “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” made people think differently about their iPhones and iPads. But after an adaptation aired on This American Life, reaching China, an investigation there of his allegations found they were fabricated. Given other news reports on the conditions, will that matter?
Los Angeles moves to eliminate plastic bags
Thursday, May 24 2012 03:14 PM
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to phase out plastic bags at the checkout with a ten cent tax. Other cities around the country have enacted similar measures, but Los Angeles is the largest U.S. city to do so.
VIDEO: Watch an iPad get made from the Foxconn factory floor
Wednesday, April 11 2012 05:44 PM
See what life is like for the workers who help assemble your Apple products in this exclusive video footage from the Foxconn factory floor in Shenzhen, China.
JP Morgan's Loss: The Explainer
Friday, May 11 2012 01:06 PM
How did JP Morgan lose $2 billion on a single bet? Here's some plain English to help understand it.
Pollster: Romney favored as candidate to fix the economy
Wednesday, May 16 2012 10:53 PM
According to Gallup, Mitt Romney currently has the edge on Barack Obama on who Americans think will do a better job on the U.S. economy. Obama also has to worry about the perceptions of his own wealth.
Dear Wall Street, this is why the people are angry
Saturday, October 15 2011 04:33 PM
Josh Brown may be in the same group as the bankers and brokers that the Occupy movements are protesting against, but he's just as angry as the protestors are at his own industry.
VIDEO: Super PAC Mad Libs
Tuesday, March 06 2012 09:24 AM
Political cartoonist Mark Fiore lampoons the rise of the Super PAC in this short video animation
Data mining pushes marketing to a new level
Friday, September 03 2010 05:43 PM
Every time you swipe one a rewards card at a store, that data goes somewhere to get analyzed. Marketplace's Stacey Vanek-Smith takes a look at the multi-billion dollar data mining industry -- how it has evolved and where it will go.
Reporter's Notebook: From both sides of the gates of Foxconn
Thursday, April 05 2012 04:42 AM
Marketplace's Rob Schmitz takes you behind the scenes of Foxconn for exclusive access into what life is like for the workers who help assemble your Apple products.
It's official: Pittsburgh is the most liveable city in the U.S.
Tuesday, February 22 2011 08:46 AM
The Economist Intelligence Unit has released its 2011 Liveability Ranking and Overview, and the Steel City tops the U.S. list, beating out Los An...