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After the peso crisis of 2001, Argentina became the destination célèbre for Americans, who flocked to South America to revel in the astonishing buys that a devalued currency can yield. Time has passed, and now we're slogging through our own economic turmoil. So is a trip to Buenos...

Online personal finance tools have come a long way in the past several years. These tools, which allow you to breakdown how you spend your money, identify wasteful spending and save toward specific goals, have typically come from smaller startups rather than traditional banks and big companies. But...

WalletPop's Lan Nguyen chats with Office Depot's Disaster Preparedness Adviser Jon Toigo and WalletPop writer and editor Aaron Crowe on how people and businesses can weather the H1N1 epidemic. Simple measures like sanitizing hands and teleconferencing can reduce exposure, says Toigo, who has...

Getting laid off is devastating, and being without health insurance can be almost as devastating. The two, unfortunately, often go together. WalletPop writers Aaron Crowe and Jennie Phipps discuss in this podcast how the unemployed, and freelancers, can afford health insurance. One method --...

WalletPop's Lan Nguyen talks with WalletPop editor Aaron Crowe and Linda Matias, author of 201 Knockout Answers to Tough Interview Questions (AMACOM), about how to ace the dreaded job interview. Matias, former president of the National Resume Writers Association, recommends writing a detailed...

In the "Your Job Will Come" podcast, WalletPop writers Aaron Crowe and Jennie Phipps discuss where to find jobs in the United States.They discuss where the best job prospects are in terms of job vacancies versus unemployed looking for work, along with cities where more job openings are happening....

They say think positive. But too often, we overlook the negative, argues David M. Corbin, author of Illuminate: Harnessing the Positive Power of Negative Thinking (Wiley). The entrepreneur -- who also executive produced, directed and starred in the 2007 film Pass It On -- chats with WalletPop's Lan...

Tim Ferguson, co-founder of merchant bank Next Street, chats with WalletPop's Lan Nguyen about the many ways entrepreneurs and small business owners can finance their dreams. Ferguson, who started the bank in 2005 with fellow banking industry vet Ronald Walker, goes over the pros and cons of...

WalletPop's Lan Nguyen chats with Mike Alfred, co-founder and CEO of BrightScope.com, an Internet-based 401(k) analytics firm, about how to make the right 401K choices. Since its launch in January, the California company has examined and rated 4,000 plans from some of America's largest employers,...

It sounds an awful lot like paradise, but what are its pitfalls? David Paul Appell, author of the affordable-travel guide book Pauline Frommer's Costa Rica, talks to WalletPop's Jason Cochran about the Central American dream destination, known for its rainforests and its wildlife. Appell tips us...