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  • Question: Last night at 8 P.M. I got a call from someone representing themselves as a mediator for a law firm and that someone had issued a…

  • Mar 21, 2011

    A call to ARMs?

    Adjustable rate mortgages are back. No, not the toxic variety with deceptive teaser rates. Home buyers are turning to low-rate plain-vanilla ARMs,…

  • Sean Cole's story on the Facebook app Double Down Casino got us to thinking about… gambling and personal finance. What else? It turns out a lot…

  • It's one of the most powerful ideas in modern personal finance: Stocks become safer investments with time. But the idea is deeply flawed for a…

  • Am I saving enough for retirement? The trigger for that question is often a quarterly or yearend 401(k) or 403(b) statement. You look at what your…

  • Financial services companies are struggling to catch up with the popularity of smartphones and tablets like the Ipad–with good reason. According…

  • These are truly disturbing numbers. According to the latest biennial survey on health insurance by the Commonwealth Fund, 28% of working-age adults…

  • Imagine retiring along the white sand beaches of Bocas Del Toro in Panama, settling into a colonial house in Nicaragua, or calling the melting pot…

  • The numbers on Alzheimer's disease are sobering. The latest report from the Alzheimer's Association estimate that 5.4 million Americans of all ages…

  • Sadly, one of the least known tax credits is a real boon for low-income savers trying to set some money aside for retirement. It's called the…