Personal Finance

Gen Y seems like a savvy and entrepreneurial generation that can capitalize on what it already knows to get ahead. Here's how to get started.

Homeowners, savers and investors shouldn't feel bad if they are confused by the trend of banks collapsing. It's obvious the experts are confused, too.

How you handle money at the beginning of your marriage can have an enormous impact on the rest of your lives together. Or your lives not together.

Real estate prices have taken a tumble in the most favored vacation and retirement home markets, making it tempting for buyers scouting for getaways.

There are easy, genuinely free ways to stay on top of your credit files and use them to save money. Here's what you need to know to do that.

You might not be able to afford an international vacation this summer, but you may want to consider sending some of your money overseas.

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.