Americans' top financial priority is merely keeping up with the bills

Money Life with Chuck Jaffe - A podcast by Chuck Jaffe

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Mark Hamrick of Bankrate.com chats with Chuck about his firm's latest research, which showed that despite a decade of economic expansion, nearly 40 percent of Americans still list catching up on bills as their biggest financial priority, followed by saving more and paying down debt. Also on the show, Sally Outlaw of Worthy Financial discusses how her firm's crowd-funding of small-business bonds has created a higher-yielding alternative to money-market accounts, Kyle Guske of New Constructs puts a high-cost technology fund in the Danger Zone and Ed Shill of the five-star QCI Balanced fund talked stocks and valuations in the Market Call.