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Financial tools and articles from Bankrate.com on topics ranging from college financing to retirement.
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Expanded help for homeowners
The Obama administration has expanded the Making Home Affordable program, their mortgage refinancing program, by increasing the loan-to-value limit. Now homeowners whose mortgages are up...
Looking for better info about towns around here
Yesterday, the Boston Globe brought up an off-beat use of the internet for home-town searching. Find out who is trash-talking the town on line. That...
Columnists
Steve Syre
Boston Capital
Michelle Singletary
The Color of Money
Spending Smart
Downsize your life
Like many of you, we are scrambling to downsize our lifestyles. Peter J. Sander offered professional help.
Consumer Alert
Sick over after-hours charge for ER visit
'After-hours' fees help medical practices cover fixed expenses during low-volume hours, and may be added to your bill.
Money makeover
Where did it all go?
The Rutledges always tried to do the right things when it came to money. But at the end of the month, they faced a budget issue.
- your turn Need a makeover?
Time to dump your adviser?
Don't sever the relationship just because your accounts are worth less than they were two years ago. But there are ways to tell if you should make a switch.
Mortgage rates, applications fall back
Mortgage rates in the United States fell this week, easing concern that a Federal Reserve plan to lower the cost of home loans had lost momentum.
Bank fees likely to increase
An array of government-created insurance agencies are seeking to make up for massive shortfalls in their insurance funds by raising fees.
FINANCIAL NEWS FROM BANKRATE.COM
- Video: The cost of summer camp (Bankrate.com, 7/03/2009)
- Video: The cost of summer camp (Bankrate.com, 7/03/2009)
- Issuers raise fees and rates (Bankrate.com, 7/02/2009)
- Jobs vanish; rates stay stuck (Bankrate.com, 7/02/2009)
- Drive smarter to save gas (Bankrate.com, 7/01/2009)
- Separate savings from Social Security (Bankrate.com, 6/24/2009)
- CD ladder evens out rate cycles (Bankrate.com, 6/01/2009)
- Pros, cons of paying car loan with HELOC (Bankrate.com, 5/18/2009)
- 5 steps for improving your credit rating (Bankrate.com, 5/15/2009)
- Paying quarterly estimated taxes (Bankrate.com, 4/12/2009)
Real Estate
5 tips for buying a foreclosure
Buying a foreclosed home is a little different from buying a typical resale. You need to do the legwork first to find a great deal. Here's what you need to know.
- Commercial properties Find or sell office space
Jobs
Fewer jobs, smaller wages
Americans lucky enough to still have a job are noticing something unpleasant in their paychecks: They’re making less.
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More personal finance news
- LINDA STERN Should you dump your adviser? Maybe, but not just because you lost money
- ALL BUSINESS: Cash is king for investors
- Jane Bryant Quinn Muni bond downgrades add risk - but potential for higher returns, too
- Group demands faster mortgage help
- Beware the bully, MBAs adjusting to recession
- The Savings Game $250,000 FDIC guarantee will protect your account through 2013, not just 2009
- New ATMs promise consumer convenience, savings for banks
- The Color of Money Sometimes, people just need to be pointed in the right direction financially
- ALL BUSINESS: Investors' tools to understand banks
- Scott Burns Cash flow change can be helpful to those aiming to pay off an older mortgage
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