Personal Finance

Men are increasingly likely to marry women who make more than they do, according to a new study on the changing economics of marriage. Columnist Amy Dickinson and clinical psychologist Joshua Coleman discuss what that role reversal means for some couples.

New rules for credit card companies take effect in February. Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary explains the new rules and what they mean — and don't mean — for consumers. Also, giving up extras for 21 days: can it help you spend smarter?

Richard Littlehale and Bob Casey launched the green tech company YouRenew.com last March in New Haven, Conn. The Web site lets people trade old gadgets for cash. Littlehale and Casey tell NPR's Robert Siegel about how and why they started their business in a growing field that includes Gazelle.com and Flipswap.com. "It's unbelievable how quickly people turn over devices," Casey says.

Mechanics at Expressway Toyota in Boston are preparing to work long hours to fix recalled gas pedals for about 10,000 customers. Even though Toyota has ordered dealers to stop selling any new cars that need the upgrade, this dealership remains optimistic about customer loyalty.

Fed up with your "too-big-to-fail" bank? Well, you can always downsize. That's the message of the "Move Your Money" campaign, which urges big-bank customers to switch to community banks. But what's it like to actually make the switch, and could this movement ever register as more than a blip on a big bank's radar? Host Guy Raz talks to one man who made the switch — Michael Parisi of Santa Cruz, Calif. And he gets two very different opinions on the idea from economist Simon Johnson and bank analyst Bert Ely.

A Chinese-born engineer convicted in the United States' first economic espionage trial was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for stealing sensitive information on the U.S. space program with the intent of passing it to China.

The economy looks better this year than it did in 2009 but despite positive economic reports, businesses remain reluctant to hire and financial markets are still jittery. David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal tells Renee Montagne that the economy isn't growing fast enough to create enough businesses that need new workers.

A year ago, the U.S. intelligence community's "threat assessment" identified the global financial crisis as the number one near-term threat to national security. This year's assessment found that the global economy less threatening, but it did highlight one notable development: Economic problems in Europe are now more worrisome than in the developing world, a reversal of the pattern of recent years. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

The Super Bowl Stock Market Predictor holds that if a team from the old NFL wins, the market will rise in that year; if a team from the old AFL wins, the market will fall. In 1990 two researchers found that the predictor was accurate 91 percent of the time. A member of Washington and Lee University's finance faculty, George Kester, has completed a new study that finds that the predictor's accuracy has fallen slightly to 77 percent. He speaks with host Liane Hansen.

The January jobs report showed the economy losing 20,000 jobs, but there was some good news. The unemployment rate actually declined last month. Monthly job losses have declined sharply from a year ago, but employers are still very reluctant to hire additional workers.

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