We're in San Diego working hard to bring you a special show set to air next week on the tough choices poor people have to make.

A big chunk of "consumer spending" is really money we spend on health care.

The good news: Households are reducing debts. The bad news: There remains a considerable way to go.

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)

Charitable giving adds up to 2 percent of real gross domestic product, down from a recent peak of 2.3 percent in 2001.

A theme of these blog posts is that fees matter when it comes to investment returns.

What should investors — especially those in their 50s and 60s — do with their already diminished retirement savings?

The financial toll on families from the dreadful economy of recent years is enormous.

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.