The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions.

This week we asked them: Step into Nancy Pelosi's shoes for a moment: What should be done about Charles Rangel (D-NY)? What do you think will be done?

Whoopi Goldberg: I like Charlie Rangel, but I think now there is too much stuff to ignore. He's got to go! And if he goes ... can I have his health-care package?

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The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions.

This week we asked them: In getting ahead in your career, what – if any – biases have you encountered? Did you confront them?

Marlo Thomas: Actresses don't suffer the same kind of bias problems as actress-hyphenates do. I was an actress-producer in my '20s and I encountered a lot of men who didn't want to deal with me or wanted to bed me, but seldom wanted to listen to me. I had to be very focused or I would be undermined in some way. It took a few years but word got out that I meant business so I was able to conduct my business. That ... and good ratings made them listen.

The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions.

This week we asked them: Among women you know on Medicare, has the program worked well/been successful? The legendary gossip columnist Liz Smith and founder of Sesame Street Joan Ganz Cooney share their thoughts about the program.

Liz Smith: Most of the women I am friends with are already on Medicare and they seem to be coping quite well in using this great mechanism. This doesn't say, however, that if we don't want to go bankrupt we better improve the system. I want to give President Obama's ideas a chance to do that.

The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions. This week we asked them: Have you ever gotten sick and then experienced health care in another country?

Julia Reed: I have never been sick in another country, but I always stock up on the best over-the-counter headache medicines when I'm in Spain, and D.R. Harris's "Pick-Me-Up" (excellent for hangovers) when I'm in London.

Are you petrified to buy a home right now? And why wouldn't you be?

The unemployment rate hit the highest it has been since 1983, the stock market is volatile and unappealing, and today, it seems people are hording their money in gold as the commodity surged passed $1,000 an ounce.

So is it a right time to invest in an abode? Yes, according to Diann Patton, the Coldwell Banker consumer real-estate spokeswoman.

Despite all the other factors that may be out of whack at the moment, there are several encouraging elements in the market at the moment that make this an ideal buyer's market..

"For one, the number of homes on the market is at an all-time high," Patton said in a recent interview with wowOwow. "State and federal governments are offering a number of tax breaks that make many nervous buyers feel right at home. Interest rates have hit lows that we haven't seen since 1964. And home prices are at levels that were seen in 2003."

The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions.

This week we asked them: Does money buy happiness? How much does it cost?

You can find their full responses on wowowow.com.

Despite the success of the Cash for Clunkers program and other government incentives to boost consumer spending, are you optimistic about the state of the job market? wowOwow's work, relationship and money expert Paula Forman isn't. Forman predicts that the unemployment rate -- now 9.4% in the United States -- will continue to rise.

Financial writer Shelby White posed an interesting question to the wise girls at wowOwow.com, and we wish to ask the same question to the smart and savvy readers at WalletPop:

Is there a bonus bias on Wall Street?
White argues that although it's hard to find statistical data that lays out bonuses by gender, there's proof that women on Wall Street earn just 55.4% of what men on the same Street do.

Did you know that bad credit could decrease your odds of getting hired for a job?

Which, if you think about it, is a double-ended sword for the pink-slipped, down-on-their-luck chum, who has amounting bills to pay but no money to pay for it and no employer who will hire them.

So what's a jobless person with a poor credit history to do in order to land a new job? In a recent interview with wowOwow.com, Tory Johnson, the author of "Fired to Hired: Bouncing Back From Job Loss to Get to Work Right Now" provides job seekers with non-stellar credit these simple steps.

The well known women at wowOwow.com are stopping by WalletPop on a frequent basis to answer your spending and personal finance questions.
This week we asked them: What kind of negotiator are you? How do you approach negotiation? What was a memorable negotiation that worked?

You can find their full responses on wowowow.com

Candice Bergen: If there were some form of recognition for Most Inept Negotiator -- it would be engraved with my name and on my shelf. The biggest negotiation I went through was during my 10 years on "Murphy." The first re-negotiation, I threw up. Not in front of the group but still. My shark-like lawyer complained that I was too professional, too sane. All the tricks like not showing up for work were not things I'd even consider. "You're too polite!!" he complained ...

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Marlo Thomas: I'm a killer when it comes to negotiating on behalf of St. Jude. Kids' lives are on the line, so there's no compromising with me about anything ...

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Liz Smith: I am a terrible negotiator. I collapse. I give in instantly. I don't have the mind or heart of a negotiator ...