Trade Up: with Dan Solin is a proposed financial talk show hosted by New York Times best-selling financial author, Dan Solin.

A recent proposed settlement of a lawsuit against Visa Inc., MasterCard, Inc. and bank credit-card issuers opens the way for millions of businesses to add checkout fees when customers pay with plastic.

Merchants may soon begin to impose a surcharge each time a customer pays with a credit card, a practice Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. currently prohibit.

Want a job on JP Morgan's risk committee?

Apparently, no experience required!

Funny, a bit crude - but informative.

In addition to the great weather here in Florida, there's lots of FREE entertainment!

Hey, this millionaire's girlfriend is now his daughter. LOL!

President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech, didn’t really touch on the subject near and dear to the hearts of millions of Americans — the State of Retirement in the U.S.

No doubt he had other pressing matters to address. So allow us the pleasure of issuing — thanks in large part to many experts on the topic — the MarketWatch State of Retirement column.

Debt collectors are turning to the courts to re-coup bad debts.

Many people think they have legal obligations to pay a dead relative's bills from their own assets. More than likely they don't have to pay them. Find out why here.

This Wall Street Journal article is about how to design your death dossier.