Banking & Budgeting

• Bruised Banks Salve Their Pain With More Fees for Customers 02/21/08
       Banks are being pummeled by bad loans and the weakening economy. Now they are passing on some of the pain to consumers. Across the country, banks have begun jac...
• Eight Ways to Cut Back Without Sacrificing 02/21/08
       When times are tightas they are now for many Americans facing declining home values, depressed stocks, and tighter credit marketscutting back on indulgences can...
• Where to Stash Short-Term Cash 02/21/08
       Last year, I introduced my 8-year-old son Gerald to the joys of compound interest when we took $1,000 out of his passbook savings account and invested the cash ...
• Don't let divorce ruin your credit rating 02/21/08
       NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- If you're planning to file for divorce this year or are already splitting your assets with your soon-to-be ex-spouse, your credit is l...
• Devices For E-Shoppers Can Thwart ID Thieves 02/21/08
       Gadgets aim to clinch the Grinch. In a recent survey, 43% of people said they'd do more than half their holiday shopping this year online. Yet, 80% of those big...

Career & Work

• Ten Jobs You Didn't Know You Wanted 02/21/08
       What's in the perfect job? Money, of course, matters, but it isn't the only measure of an awe-inspiring career. Creative opportunities, healthy interaction, a g...
• How One Executive Used a Sabbatical to Fix His Career 02/21/08
       One morning in 2005, Daniel H. Marcus awoke in a pitch-black hotel room. The executive-pay consultant knew he needed to see a corporate client, his third in thr...
• 5 Pitfalls That Trip Up Working Moms 02/21/08
       There's one thing virtually all working moms agree upon: The key to success -- as both a professional and a parent -- is piecing together some sort of flexible ...
• Running a Home Business Like a Big-Company Office 02/21/08
       Renee O'Brien of Pottstown, Pa., was excited to work from home when she became an independent distributor for a women's slumber-party hosting company in 2005. B...
• Low-Cost Resources for Business Owners 02/21/08
       I want to get a couple of products patented and on the market this year. People who have already done this could give me good advice on patenting, marketing, di...

College & Education

• The Basics of MBA Budgeting 02/21/08
       Being shaky with personal finances is the dirty little secret of many business school students. While most would-be MBAs know corporate finance like the back of...
• Getting on the Fast Track To an Executive M.B.A. 02/21/08
       Jiye Shi, a scientist for the biopharmaceutical company UCB, travels regularly to Europe on business and didn't think he could fit an executive M.B.A. program i...
• Getting a Running Start at B-School 02/21/08
       Like many first-year students, Shahnaz Shushtari walked onto Cornell's Johnson School campus last fall thinking she had the right game plan for her first semest...
• Playing the Market 02/21/08
       The spirit of Gordon Gekko is alive in the halls of academia. The accomplished and the aspiring in business from all walks embark on a masters of business admin...
• "Gap Years" Can Be Smart Move for High School Seniors 02/21/08
       ELAINE BARR, 19, spent several months last year feeding snakes, foxes and even a polar bear. It was all part of an internship in the wildlife department of EcoT...

Family & Home

• Are Auto Insurers Readying for a War on Horsepower? 02/21/08
       The freedom to drive fast in a powerful car is fundamental to the mystique that auto makers use to sell cars. Now, as if the auto industry didn't have enough tr...
• Does Your Child Suffer From Afluenza? 02/21/08
       Flu season has arrived, but some social scientists worry about another virus that's usually at its height between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's called afflue...
• Going broke: budgeting basics for kids - and parents 02/21/08
       Kerri and Mike Miller have a spending problem. Three of them, in fact. There's 12-year-old Kate, a seventh-grader who covets a pair of $160 boots, prefers cloth...
• In Praise of Mean Parenting 02/21/08
       Let's hear it for mean parents: * Des Moines mother Jane Hambleton recently made headlines by selling her teenage son's car after she found alcohol under the fr...
• Money Magazine: What you owe your kids 02/21/08
       At this point in their lives, Tony Carideo, 57, and his wife Linda, 56, of Bloomington, Minn., thought the financial load of raising their four kids would have ...

Insurance

• Bad Cancer Tests Drawing Scrutiny 02/21/08
       Thousands of breast-cancer patients may be getting the wrong treatment because of errors in two laboratory tests widely used to determine which drugs are prescr...
• Getting Fit Without Getting Hurt 02/21/08
       Exercise can help keep you out of the health-care system -- except when it doesn't. With the added pressure of New Year's resolutions, people kicking off fitnes...
• Why Keep on Giving? 02/21/08
       There's a saying that grandchildren are life's greatest bargain because you can give them a handful of loose change and they'll give you a million dollars worth...
• Life insurance safeguards and trapdoors 02/21/08
       It can be emotionally draining to watch aging parents lose control of their finances. But it can be positively devastating to learn after the fact that they for...
• The Case for Insurance-Based Investments 02/21/08
       Buy term and invest the rest. That's the mantra among many experts who see term insurance as the only smart way to protect yourself and your family. The unfortu...

Loans

• Looking for Lenders 02/21/08
       As more consumers become comfortable with idea of borrowing and lending money to each other over the Internet, investments in peer-to-peer loans are emerging as...
• Comparing Financial Aid Offers 02/21/08
       You've been accepted by a bunch of good colleges, and the financial aid offers from the schools are flowing in. How do you compare them? It's not necessarily ea...
• Diesel's Image Crisis 02/21/08
       Automakers have touted hybrid, all-electric, E85-fueled, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles as bearers of better fuel economy, cleaner air, and less reliance on fo...
• Deducting Mortgage Loan Points 02/21/08
       If you have ever taken out a mortgage, you probably already know of the tax advantage provided by deducting your mortgage interest payments. But many homeowners...
• Housing Gap 02/21/08
       Those eager to become homeowners have reason to cheer the home-price drops seen in many local housing markets as a number of areas have gotten more affordable o...

Real Estate

• Housing Slump Starts to Hit Stronger Cities 02/01/08
       It's getting harder to hide from the housing bust. Tight credit, fragile consumer confidence and a weakening economy are slowing sales and depressing prices eve...
• Florida Eyes Countrywide's Practices 02/01/08
       Florida Is Latest State to Put Countrywide's Lending Under Microscope LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, is ...
• They're Down, But Not All Out: Some Flippers Are Hanging On 02/01/08
       Chaos in the housing market has spoiled the fun for some of real estate's biggest cheerleaders: flippers. In a rising market, they could buy, work their makeove...
• Durable Goods Orders Rise by 5.2 Percent 01/30/08
       Durable Good Orders Rise in December; Consumer Confidence Slides in January NEW YORK (AP) -- Orders to factories for big-ticket manufactured goods jumped unexpe...

Retirement

• How to Make a Million 02/01/08
       Strategies for saving at every age. The road to $1 million starts early, but there's hope, and help, for late bloomers. Choose your age category below to see ho...
• Union to Fight Chrysler Reductions 02/01/08
       DETROIT (AP) -- A local United Auto Workers president is promising to fight Chrysler LLC's effort to cut the jobs of 119 car designers who are represented by th...
• The Best Way to Start Out Financially 02/01/08
       Lately I've had a lot of requests for information for young people just starting out in life. Regardless of whether they are in their 20s or 30s (or even 40s--y...
• Tetra Tech 1Q Profit Jumps 02/01/08
       Tetra Tech Fiscal 1st-Quarter Profit Leaps 37 Percent PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Tetra Tech Inc. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit jumped 37 percent ...
• Keep your finances in check 02/01/08
       The stock market may be in turmoil, but that doesn't mean your personal finances have to be. But there are a lot of web sites out there designed to make your fi...

Taxes

• Don't Spend Your Stimulus Rebate! 02/01/08
       I'm all for avoiding recession, but if Uncle Sam sends you a check of a few hundred dollars as part of the new economic stimulus package, don't bother trying to...
• Wis: Ex Arts Official Indicted for Fraud 02/01/08
       Wisconsin: Former Arts Official Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Tax Charges MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The former head of a prominent Madison arts center pleaded guilty Thur...