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Marketplace Money weekly update
OCTOBER 20-21, 2007
This Week

New job-seeking tool? It's the network

The business of online networking is growing, and part of the reason is that people are using their networks to recruit and job-seek. Jeremy Hobson found that, just like it is offline, it's less about what you know -- it's who you know.


Financial education from soap operas?
Would it be easier to learn about personal finance if your teachers were your favorite daytime soap stars? Some U.S. officials want to make it happen. Lisa Napoli talks about it with U.S. Treasurer Anna Escobedo Cabral.


Is marriage a good idea at your age?
If you're an older couple and both of you have considerable wealth, does getting hitched make financial sense? Lisa Napoli talks to Money Magazine editor Cybele Weisser.


Day in the Work Life: Escalade love
Let's roll, spin, crush and destroy with Benjamin "Bo Bo" Winslow, crew chief of the monster truck "Escalade."


'Sugar daddies' get what they pay for
Of all the different ways to earn and invest money that we talk about, this is one method we don't necessarily advise. But that doesn't mean some folks aren't doing it. Reporter Sean Cole looked into "sugar daddies" and the "sugar babies" who want them.


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CONSUMER CONSEQUENCES

How many p***ts would it take to sustain humanity if everyone lived like you? Play our "Consumer Consequences" game and find out.

Money Clip

View the latest in our monthly series -- Chris Farrell on college loans.
"COLA"
What's it mean? Find out.
Straight story
Just in case you needed another reason to be spooked out this month, it's the 20-year anniversary of the market crash of 1987. Economics editor Chris Farrell looks back and tries to learn something.

Mailbag
Chris Farrell answers listeners' questions about advising a son on his mother's finances, investing in frontier markets, and what to do with a 401k after you've left a company.
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