By Joe Taylor Jr. Take care of your credit, and credit card companies will want to take care of you. Banks have put together some hard-to-find credit card offers to attract consumers with high FICO scores. If you’ve built a strong credit history, you can earn unusually high cash back rebates, travel perks, and low [...]

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By Peter Andrews Broker ages I have an uncle who’s a multimillionaire. And he’s always talking about the latest call he’s received from his broker. When I was a kid, I somehow pictured the person who called him as a thin, elderly gentleman with parchment-thin skin, wearing a morning coat and wing collar, like one [...]

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By Clark Schultz The Chinese Revolution If you are like me, when you think about China you almost get dizzy. It’s hard to imagine over one billion people living in a country with a market for goods and services that is literally exploding as the country modernizes. By 2014 the International Monetary Fund estimates that [...]

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By Michele Lerner Like many people, the recession encouraged me to take a harder line with my budget. I’m definitely saving more and being more careful with spending.  But I’m also looking past just saving the money I already have — I’m looking into earning it. This morning, I checked on the interest rate on [...]

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By Richard Barrington Have you ever run a long-distance race? I find it useful to think of saving money like distance running. If you obsess over the total distance, then each step seems hopelessly insignificant in covering the necessary ground. If instead you just start making those steps, and concentrate on finding a comfortable and [...]

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By Peter Andrew Last year, my sister and brother-in-law wanted to remodel their kitchen. They both have good, secure jobs and great credit scores, and could easily have raised the money they needed, even in this economic climate. However, at the same time my mom had quite a hefty balance in a high yield savings [...]

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By Matt Riddle A year ago, my wife and I switched banks. She was pregnant with our first kid and, like many Americans, we were saving money however we could. We had our accounts in two different banks — both traditional national chains with thousands of branches in the country and sports stadiums named after [...]

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By Peter Andrew You say tomatoes… Do you think the Federal Reserve should be more like the Bank of England? No, I’m not suggesting it should employ people with funny accents or lose most of its international influence. But perhaps its people could learn something from their opposite numbers in London about plain speaking. The [...]

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This is a guest post from Marc Pearlman. When people ask me if they could be successful at day trading, my first response is, “Do you know what day trading is?” Most people don’t. You might think day trading is about finding the best online brokerage, grabbing a stack of financial reports, arming yourself with [...]

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by Barbara Marquand In the wake of the financial meltdown, top money expert Saly Glassman says investors need to take responsibility of their finances and get their investments back on track. Glassman, ranked the nation’s No. 1 woman financial advisor by Barron’s, is author of “It’s About More Than the Money: Investment Wisdom for Building [...]

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