Personal Finance

Several new products offer to replace interest payments and high reverse mortgage costs with an unknown share of future profits on the sale of a home. What's the catch?

The economy is in a bad place and people are casting about, sometimes desperately, for ways to ease the crunch.

Happily, there are ways to get the best out of summer without swimming into a deeper debt hole. Here are some summer savings tips.

People are worried about job loss, debt, rising prices and not being able to sustain their retirement. Here's how to quiet that whiny voice in your head.

Gas, gold, food, fuel: Up, up, up, and up. Inflation is already showing up in key commodities, and many economists think more is on the way.

The Federal Reserve is planning to crack down on credit card practices it views as consumer abuse.

Gasoline isn't the only painfully expensive necessity of life. Prices are rising sharply on eggs, rice, poultry, milk and bread -- all of the dietary staples.

Call it rebalancing, or call it contrarian investing. Smart investors know they should trim back some winners and buy some losers now and again.

The financial services companies would like you to know that April is Financial Literacy Month. What are you reading?

The vast majority of parents say they are good financial role models for their children ... but they may be kidding themselves. A new survey from Charles

There are about four billion retirement calculators out there, and they all agree on one thing: It's bad when you have to retire into a recession.