Best Online Banks: It’s Not Just About Rates - This blog post has a good discussion on some of the...

Why It's a Great Time to Be an Investor - Memo to investors: This is what you get paid for....

Is retiring early unpatriotic? - The argument for working longer is not just about people...

Can the US Bring Manufacturing Jobs Back from China? - The weaker dollar and higher fuel prices are helping to...

New Versions of Variable Annuities May Create Future Problems - Just a few years ago, variable annuities were shunned by...

Oil Drilling in Beverly Hills - And the Oil Wasn't Found by Jed Clampett - There are actually 24 active oil wells in Beverly Hills...

Big Savings by Changing the Design of the Milk Jug - A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug,...

Monty Hall Problem and Investing? - The Monty Hall Problem is probably the most...

Bear Market Guide: Relax, make money - Stocks are down about 20% from their highs, and even the...

The case for indexing the world - Every quarter Standard & Poor's issues its "Index Versus...

Small Banks Face a Looming Hit From Builders' Interest-Reserve Loans - Regulators are increasingly worried about a lending...

ExxonMobil: Super-Safe Stock? - Shares of this oil giant provide strong and stable...

The Future of Google News? - After six years since its release, Google News has...

Entrepreneur Blogs Worth Reading - Article lists 15 blogs from various entrepreneurs. Some...

Why Americans Are Overly Pessimistic About the Economy - By comparison with past recessions, the current US...

New Fidelity and Vanguard Funds Designed for Retirees - Fidelity Income Replacement Funds are designed to provide...

Rolling Over Your 401K Into an IRA - Reasons Against It - Article describes a few little known disadvantages of...

Better Alternative to Credit Monitoring/Fraud Alert Services - Clark Howard makes a strong case that credit...

Economic Downturn Hurting One of Nevada's Infamous Industries - You might think the prostitution industry is recession...

Honda's Latest Fuel-Cell Cars - Don't Get Your Wallet Out Yet - Honda announced Monday that it will start leasing a...

New Mutual Funds Outperform Peers in the First Year - The returns of over 2,000 mutual funds were compared for...

Gas Station Stops Accepting Credit Cards - Even though this is just one station in West Virginia, it...

Social Networking Websites See Growth in Traffic But Not Profits - MySpace is proving to be not as profitable as News...

Who Should Fear the iPhone the Most? RIM? Motorola? - With a lower price, more features and a fast 3G wireless...

Speculators the Cause of the Recent Price Inflation? - An in-depth article looking how commodity speculators are...

Little support from Feds for Plug-in Hybrid Research - There may be lots of words of encouragement to get the US...

Inflation getting 'uglier and uglier' - The Consumer Price Index, a key inflation reading, rose...

The Pros and Cons of LifeLock - This is a review of LifeLock that has more pros than...

Has the American Dream Become a Fairy Tale? - A creatively written fairy tale of the mortgage mess

Rewards Checking Accounts: Higher Interest Worth The Extra Trouble? - This is a good review of the new high yield reward...

The hedge fund manager who beat the SEC - Phil Goldstein quit being an engineer for the City of New...

Investing during a rough economy - It's easy to get spooked by recession talk, but trying to...

Hypermilers Push the Limits of Fuel Efficiency - It's a game that some say started during the...

A Shift in Real Estate Books - The titles include Flipping Houses for Dummies in 2006,...

Buffett's big bet - hedge funds can't beat the market - The celebrated investor wagers a tidy sum that even...

Apple announces faster, cheaper iPhone - CEO Steve Jobs unveils the much-anticipated 3G iPhone;...

Why oil prices will tank - Arguments that $4-a-gallon gas (or even higher) is here...

Bank of America Is Firm on Countrywide Buyout - Many say this is a horrible deal, but Bank of America...

When Buying A Gas Guzzler Makes Sense - The gasoline-price-induced collapse of the...

It's solar power's time to shine - Soaring oil and gas prices have finally persuaded US...

Homes in foreclosure top 1 million - Mortgage bankers report hits grim a benchmark in first...

The greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters - Couple of the interesting ones mentioned included Boo.com...

4.00% Online Savings Account Guaranteed For 3 Months at 1st Constitution Direct - 1st Constitution Bank has an internet branch called 1st...

FDIC in Action - Behind the Scenes at Last Week's Bank Closure - This WSJ article has an interesting look at the behind...

In the years ahead, 5 key trends will dominate your financial life - The article is a tad old and targeted to boomers, but...

Drivers choose cars over trucks as auto sales plunge - A passenger car unseated a pickup as the best-selling...

Bernanke sees no repeat of ‘70s-style inflation - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday he...

Nickel and dimed: Airlines' fee-for-all - With airlines cutting out extras and charging for things...

Credit card rewards are a real rip off - About 85 percent of U.S. households participate in at...

Wal-Mart Begins Offering Classified Ads Through Its Web Site - WalMart.com Classifieds debuted last week through a...

Bad Omens for Banks? - Nobody was expecting an easy year for U.S. banks, but...

Dollar bull - U.S. doing a better job restraining money growth than euro zone - You can't talk about one currency in isolation. Headlines...

The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine - Google's Ad Quality team has a mission to constantly...

Selling Cell Phones to the Gray Generation - NTT Docomo is one of Japan's largest mobile providers and...

The Downfall of 6 High-Profile CEOs and Where They're at Now - The past few years have seen the departure of a bevy of...

Some famous dot-com companies of the 90's. Where are they now? - They were among the darlings of the first dot-com bubble:...

Latest debt-creation invention: 401k credit cards - Big screen HDTV: $2,000 DVD Home Theater System: $700...

Economic Growth Is Revised Higher - The economy grew at a faster pace than originally...

The Customer Service Hall of Shame - When the economic going gets tough, some companies...

The Fall of Microsoft Office - Microsoft announced that it would support the open-source...

The 10 Most Annoying Habits of Technology Companies - Fed up with rebate hassles, nagging software, and skimpy...

America's hottest investor - mutual fund manager Ken Heebner - Just how good has Heebner been? We may well be witnessing...

Buffett sees "long, deep" U.S. recession - The U.S. is already in a recession and it will be longer...

Bad news for Detroit is spelled MPG - Car buyers finally believe $4 gas is here to stay. The...

Does LifeLock Really Protect You from Identity Theft? - Todd Davis has dared criminals for two years to try...

A Law of Tax Policy - You Can't Soak the Rich - No matter what the tax rates have been, in postwar...

Microsoft's New Search Engine Plan to Compete with Google: Paying You to Search - Microsoft's "Live Search cashback" site, set to be...

Five Basics for Building a Solid Financial Future - Here are five basic guidelines. Think of them as the...

$400,000 of Deposits at a Failed Bank, First-Hand Experience at ANB Financial - A depositor describes his experience at ANB Financial...

6 gas-saving myths - Sure you want to save gas, but there's a lot of bad...

DOE Report: Wind Could Power 20 Percent of US Grid by 2030 - A new report from the Department of Energy claims that...

Craig of Craigslist Discusses His Website and the Future - There is a real Craig in Craigslist, and lately he is...

New Way to Ride Nuclear's Revival - Nuclear power, long reviled as a dangerous source of...

Federal Regulators Close ANB Financial Bank - Federal regulators closed ANB Financial Friday, marking...

Is U.S. Innovation Headed Offshore? - Companies have been shifting more engineering and design...

Is the bear market in stocks behind us? - Standard & Poor's strategist Sam Stovall, who just a...

AARP Financial Savings Center - 4.50% Savings Account - For those 50 and over, this is an excellent deal. There's...

Shareholders Revolt Against Bloated CEO Pay - Year after year, through good years and bad, America's...

Amazon Sues Over New York State Law on Collection of Sales Tax - Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York...

U.S. gas: So cheap it hurts - Relatively low taxes have kept pump prices far below most...

Series I Savings Bond Fixed Rate Plummets from 1.20% to 0% - The TreasuryDirect just announced the new I Bond rates...

Municipal Bond Tax to be Decided by Supreme Court - The top court is considering Kentucky v. Davis, a lawsuit...

Lifecycle Funds - Too Much Hype? - With targeted Retirement or Lifecycle Funds, you pick...

Billionaire Texas oil man makes big bets on wind - Legendary Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens has gone green...

Good time to buy I Bonds before May - Guaranteed ~4.4% for 14 months - The Labor Department released the March CPI numbers...

Fears of long recession rising - "We have a deadly combination of commodity price...

Does The Government Underestimate Inflation Through The Consumer Price Index (CPI)? - One of the best reviews that I've seen covering the...

Dateline Investigations of Annuity Salesmen - Instead of the usual "To Catch a Predator"...

Shopping For the Best Auto Loans at Credit Unions - Before going to a dealership, make sure you get...

The credit card Bill of Rights: An indepth look - A new legislation has recently made its debut into the...

Why Is Diesel More Expensive Than Gas? - I don't drive a diesel vehicle, but I have noticed lately...

Reasons for Our High Gas Prices - Article refutes the claim that higher demand and lower...

Decade of Stock Market Underperformance and When or If We'll See Improvements - The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index finished at 1352.99...

Motorola Split: Death of a Great American Company? - Motorola is pitching its split into two companies,...

Index Powered CD Review: Stock Performance + Bank Safety? - These index CDs may seem like the best of both worlds,...

The Weak Dollar and America's Prestige - Many in the US and around the world equate a lower dollar...

The Danger in 'Senior' Inflation - The Baby Boomer generation is heading into retirement....

Stock Market Expectations for the Next Generation - Article divides the stock market history into 3 periods:...

More people are tapping their 401(k) for cash - As home prices fall and banks tighten lending standards,...

US banks borrow $50 billion via new Fed facility - US banks have been quietly borrowing massive amounts of...

The best investment advice you'll never get except for those at Google - When Google went public, the management feared that many...

5 kids who built million-dollar enterprises before the age of 20 - One of the youngest kids mentioned in the article started...

Time to Buy Google - Shares of Google have tumbled lately, but they should...

Can Your Child Open a Roth IRA? - Good reminder that you can open a Roth IRA for a child,...

An optimist on the economy - After all this pessimism, here's an optimistic view of...

The great fiscal stimulus package ... of 1929 - Article provides some similarities between the...

Why traditional ‘print’ media is doomed - CEO of SmugMug gives his opinion about major flaws in...

Beyond Payday Loans - Never thought I would see an article with payday in the...

Profit from high gold prices the old fashion way - prospecting - If you're thinking about investing in gold, why not do it...

Super Bowl ads: $2.7 million and worth it - The big game will showcase the most expensive commercials...

The darker side of interest rate cuts - Markets like the Fed cuts and expect more. But lower...

Fastest Growing Corporate Crime in America - What’s the fastest growing corporate crime in America?...

Fed slashes key rate to 3.5% - Citing weakening economic outlook, Federal Reserve makes...

Bank of America reports steep earnings decline - Bank of America said its net income plunged 95 percent to...

When people think something is better when it costs more - EVERYONE loves a bargain. But retailers know that people...

Case for Bernanke to hold steady on the fed funds rate - "It's better to take a small recession and kill inflation...

The Rich, the Super Rich and the rest of us - South Florida's super-rich are stretching the gap between...

Soaring Consumer Prices in 2007. What About This Year? - Milder inflation in December should usher in...

The Economy: Five Signposts to Recovery - Things are gloomy—and getting gloomier. How will...

Wholesale Prices Soared Last Year - Return of Stagflation? - Wholesale inflation last year shot up by the largest...

Toyota Will Offer a Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle by 2010 - The chief executive of the Toyota Motor Corporation said...

Why people believe weird things about money - Evolution accounts for a lot of our strange ideas about...

From 10 Hours a Week, $10 Million a Year - Markus Frind, a 29-year-old Web entrepreneur, developed...

Bank of America's awesome Countrywide tax break - Guess who's helping Bank of America pay for its $4.1...

Geothermal may be the hottest game in town - Most companies involved with clean energy are way...

Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship - Professor and author describes 10 myths of...

Bank of America's Countrywide trap - The financial behemoth's $2 billion investment in the...

Top websites run by people under 30 - The list is ranked by annual turnover. Many probably...

The 10 Most Overpaid U.S. Jobs And the Little Effort They Require - The #1 is mutual fund manager. That's probably a good...

The 2008 Race to Fix Healthcare - Intent on providing universal coverage, the Democrats'...

Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires - Five people who have at least a million dollars in liquid...

Banks' Narrowing Margins - Scramble for Deposits Is Squeezing Profits The article...

Behind Huckabee's radical 'Fair Tax' - The Republican candidate is fairly conservative - except...

How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time - Many companies are using the Internet to snoop on their...

Financial Rules of Thumb - These 12 money rules of thumb are often touted as gospel...

Best and worst stocks of 2007 - Some of the best stocks included Apple, Amazon, Honeywell...

Patelco Is Now Federally Insured - My Experience Joining and Opening the 7% and 5.50% CDs - With Patelco Credit Union now federally insured, I...

Revised GDP calculations show that China isn't the giant we thought it was - The World Bank reported that it overestimated the size of...

Will Bank of America lay low on deals in '08? - The CEO claims that there are no acquisitions planned and...

Woman Sues Chase Bank to Recover Life Savings - An 82-year-old widow has filed a lawsuit against Chase...

101 Dumbest Moments in Business - Some of my favorites include: 44. Bank of America A...

6 money dilemmas - Pay your mortgage or invest? Buy or lease a car? Etc. - The author of this article takes six common financial...

The Risks of Being Late with Credit Card Payments - For those who pay off all of their balances on time,...

Google Takes Aim at Wikipedia - Google is taking aim at popular online encyclopedia...

Renewable Energy Industry Risks : No Wind Farms in My Backyard - For alternative energy to make a dent in US energy...

Ten Truths About the U.S. and China - Common and popular perceptions of our relationship with...

Symptoms of an economic depression - The signs are pointing to a crisis -- and a crash for the...

5 Things You Didn't Know About Starbucks - One thing I didn't know is that its founders sold...

OneUnited's High Yield Savings Account Review - Rate Still Holding - While most every bank has been cutting their online...

Treasury takes new whack at savings bonds - The Treasury announced that beginning January 1, 2008,...

The Greenback Isn't a Goner - There's hope for the dollar according to this article:...

Online Banking Warning - You Might Have Deposits at Countrywide Bank and Not Even Know It - If you've been taking advantage of UFB Direct's high...

How Much Money Do Bloggers Earn Blogging? - Survey of Over 3,000 Bloggers - For those who did earn money from blogging in October,...

Extreme Early Retirees - Financial Case Studies - Two couples were interviewed about why and how they...

Google's Gigawatt Goal - Google is expanding from search and advertising to...

Some of the World's Richest People Are the World's Most Frugal People - Once you get use to living frugally, I guess it's hard to...

Best States for Small Businesses - The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council just came...

A Few Insights into How Future FICO Scores Will Be Computed - Fair Isaac is updating its formulas, and according to...

A Better Way of Indexing? - From the article: "Traditional indexes weight individual...

Patelco Credit Union is Scheduled to be Federally Insured Starting January 1st - Patelco Credit Union has announced that it will be...

Fuzzy Picture for Apple TV - If you want to disrupt an industry, you have to come up...

7 year-end tax-saving moves - Here are some year-end tips to reduce your 2007 income...

Top secrets to beating retailers at the holiday-shopping game - To find the best shopping deals, it's useful to know the...

Review of FNBO Direct's New Online CDs and Checking Account - After FNBO Direct's 6% savings account promotion ended in...

New York Times article on rate chasing - One rate chaser interviewed in the article describes how...

FDIC Takes Over NetBank - Some Interesting Facts about the Closure - NetBank is the biggest failure since the June 1993...

Last Chance at 6 Percent? PenFed Credit Union's New 6.00% CDs - Pentagon Federal Credit Union just started offering 6.00%...

Exceeding the $100K FDIC/NCUA Limits with POD's - Use Caution - If you are using a Payable-on-Death (POD) account to...

EverBank's World Currency CDs - My Interview with an EverBank Executive - I've done several posts on EverBank's 6.01% checking and...