When it comes time to sell your home, many people make small improvements to help them get the best possible sales price. It’s usually true that a h...

Warren Buffett’s secretary has become a national symbol of the unfairness of the tax code. Publicity brings scrutiny, and a popular web site found t...

Government-backed mortgage programs are priced to reflect risk. As mortgage defaults have mounted, the cost of these programs has increased. Initially...

In a slow economy, small businesses tend to compete more aggressively for business. Big companies have difficulty passing on price increases in that e...

Housing affordability measures how much of the average family’s income it takes to buy the average house. With interest rates at all-time lows, mort...

Although the full details have not been revealed, the broad outline of a deal has been announced and major banks have reportedly agreed to a $25 billi...

Scanning several news sites, the big story in the real estate market seems to be that Home Foreclosures Decline, But Completions Up. Without diggin...

Unemployment in Greece is officially 20.9 percent, and that is low by the standards of Spain where unemployment is nearly 25 percent...but that's anot...

Much of the economic news has been gloomy of late with unemployment high and gas prices up. There’s a lot more to the economy besides those two indi...

Long-term care can become a sudden problem. While many senior citizens will require long-term care, it is impossible to predict when the need will occ...