from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Far from a real recovery, the U.S. housing market has entered a double-dip recession, as evidenced by data released Tuesday. Rex Nutting writes today in his First Take analysis on news: Housing is still holding back the economy, nearly five years after the bubble began to deflate. [...]
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
U.S. economic policy is debasing the dollar, says Axel Merk, manager of the Merk Hard Currency Fund. He tells investors to avoid the greenback and focus instead on countries with strong currencies, such as Sweden and Canada.
from Slate – Moneybox
Today’s news that national housing prices have double-dipped to a new recession-era low is grim for homeowners, home sellers, banks, builders, and the president. Prices are down in 19 of the 20 biggest metro regions—Washington, D.C., is the exception. And given the 1.9-million-house backlog in the foreclosure pipeline, nobody expects prices to [...]
from CNN Money Personal Finance
There is one telling number to judge the strength of a school’s alumni network: the percentage of graduates who give money to a school every year. Here are the schools with the most alumni donors.One of the most valuable assets of a top-ranked business school is its alumni network. [...]
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Like many a diet, attempts at budgeting often start with the best of intentions but end in failure. Your chances of success are much higher if you try a personalized budget, which takes into a account your own past spending patters. See this guide to learn how it is [...]
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Spending Benjamins was a favorite activity for designer-jeaned teens just a few years ago. But the severe economic downturn changed things so much that their mantra might well be “a penny saved is a penny earned.” Some marketers are dispensing with XYZ-tagging and simply calling the young survivors of the [...]
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
U.S. home prices fall in March for the eighth straight month, pushing the index into double-dip downturn, according to the Case-Shiller home-price index released by Standard & Poor’s.
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Bud Robertson is 62, recently retired, and wealthy enough after a long business career that he doesn’t have to work another day in his life. He’s in great shape, is full of energy, and lives in a big house in Groton, Mass., that looks like an antebellum mansion uprooted from a [...]
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Face it. Mom and Dad are getting up there. And their finances aren’t getting any simpler. Some of life’s trickiest money tasks — managing a large but basically fixed nest egg, figuring out how to spend it down while never running out — are in the hands of people who at [...]
from CNN Money Personal Finance
I’m 19 and have hopes of lying on the beach drinking margaritas for the most part of my life. But I’d also like to begin investing the small amount of money I have. How do I get started? — Peter N., Los Angeles, Calif.