How to Get a Loan the Web 2.0 Way
It took Karla Brazelton just three days to round up nearly 100 strangers willing to help her reduce her $7,000 credit card debt. In September...
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Media Savvy
Tuna Amobi, senior analyst at Standard & Poor’s Equity Research, doesn’t like to mince words about the direction of the U.S. economy in the coming...
Get Ready for Your Annual Insurance Checkup
No one really enjoys shopping for insurance. So, for most people, once the task is complete, the natural instinct is to toss the policy in...
Do the REIT Thing
If you’re looking to diversify your portfolio, a real estate investment trust, or REIT, is one way to invest in the housing and commercial real...
Why a Crisis Can Be Good for Your Finances
As I read over the results of Ariel Investments 2010 Black Investor Survey recently, I recalled Rahm Emanuel’s statement following the 2008 presidential election: “Never...
The High Cost of Death
When Clara Bell received the news in June that her beloved 27-year-old nephew had died of an undiagnosed heart condition, she rushed to be with...
Retooling for Recovery
We’ve all heard plenty about how consumers drive the U.S. economy. They generate two-thirds of economic activity, after all. It turns out that manufacturers of...
The Meaning of Life Insurance
Life Happens and so does death. Although most of us would prefer not to dwell on the second part of that equation, preparing for an...
Different Strokes
It isn’t easy to be a nonconformist in the staid, buttoned-up world of finance....
Get Paid!
With unpredictable shifts in the stock market this year, it’s a good time for investors to seek out dividends stocks—the distributions of cash many companies...