How's your Labor Day holiday going? If AAA is correct, fewer of us are on the road this year, primarily because the 2009 long weekend fell after most schools started. The hubby and I are...

The scariest word in the world, on Halloween or any other day of the year is taxes. And it' is being used as a scare tactic, with some success, in the final days of the presidential election.

"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax." -- Lord Thomas Robert Dewar

I accidentally looked at a third quarter statement for one of my retirement accounts last week. Its value had dropped just 11 percent. If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be OK with a loss in value of "just 11 percent" on any investment, I'd have...

Forget Wall Street vs. Main Street. The financial battles in this economic downturn are being fought in the trenches of family homes, pitting parents against kids. The hubby and I don't have any children, so I'm relying on other reports, such as a...

I've been thinking about Charles Dickens today. Not because it's December and he wrote the classic holiday story, A Christmas Carol. And not because it was on this day in 1867 that Dickens gave his first public reading in America, kicking off a...

I know that as the year winds down, the only savings that most of y'all are interested in are what you can shave off the retail price of the presents on your Christmas list.  But I do want to take a few minutes to mention other savings, like those...

For a country that usually likes to stay under the radar, Switzerland continues to get a lot of attention when it comes to its banking laws and international taxes. Yes, things are still shaking out, with the names of the "most-wanted" account...

No wonder Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the Virginia couple and "Real Housewives" wannabes that crashed Obama's first state dinner last week, are looking for big bucks to tell their story.They apparently owe a lot of money to a lot of people. CNN...

I've blogged repeatedly about the dire financial straits most states find themselves in nowadays. If things don't change, and soon, some state officials might decide to follow Colorado's latest revenue-raising move: taxing medical marijuana....