Your investment portfolio will typically include conventional investments such as stocks and bonds both equally important parts of a solid, long-term investment strategy. But, there are many other less-typical investments that can supplement your portfolio …

Being objective and unbiased are the optimum goals in any trial, especially high-profile criminal ones. However, when the media becomes a participant, these goals are thwarted. As Americans, we may hate to admit it, but …

What you should know about private student loans. So you’ve filled out your FAFSA on the web and received your financial aid award letter from your chosen school. You do the math and realize that …

Uncertainty rules the day where market tips are concerned. Statistics show the past performance of stocks and probabilities for what will happen in the future. Thus certainty—of what happened—and uncertainty— of what probably will happen, …

Just as it’s important that you have homeowner’s insurance, it’s also important that you insure your property for the right amount. If you over insure your house, you will end up overpaying. And if you …

With the housing market changes since 2007, more people are concerned with the state of the economy, the state of their financial position and want to make sure they are making wise choices about how …

Keeping debts on multiple cards can cause huge problems and a large financial burden on family life, trying to juggle minimum repayments against a family budget, however there are cheap ways to release this pressure …

Frugality is often misunderstood and deemed to be about penny pinching. A far better way to appreciate the benefits of frugal habits is to challenge the ways in which money is wasted unnecessarily to profit …

The SIPC, or Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), is a non-profit, non-governmental membership corporation, funded entirely by its member broker-dealers. The SIPC was created in 1970. Nearly all broker-dealers registered with the SEC are SIPC …

Insurance is a necessary evil, but it’s also a budget buster. Between paying for life, health, home and auto insurance you barely have anything left for your life, health home and auto. But, if you’re …

I’ve been there. I had to walk away. Actually, I ran away. My paycheck no longer could stretch in every direction. I tried with all of my might to keep a roof over our heads, …

Saving money can be extremely difficult for some people. It is however necessary, in order to be able to make ends meet and have enough money in case of an emergency. There are some useful …

Having read many interesting submissions concerning the rights and wrongs of the death penalty, I believe I have now come up with another interesting option. For the truly depraved, cruel and inhumane acts for which …

Under UK law, a spent conviction is a conviction which has become spent under the laws of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act of 1974.  According to legislation.gov.uk, which provides a database of all UK laws …

Created works performed by an individual or individuals are copyrighted. These are novels, articles, poems, essays, school books, art books, songs, music, and all works created by hand, typewritten, by pen or pencil on paper, …

Under French inheritance law which dates back to Napoleonic times, a child cannot be disinherited. One may think that this is very fair indeed, though with more and more mixed marriages and children from different …

Borrowing money is an inevitable part of life for the majority of people who want to buy a home, establish a business, or fund an education. Borrowing for such purposes is not only necessary in …

The best way to use credit cards is to pay off the entire balance each month when or before the balance is due. The most clever credit card users employ this method of payment, in …

Over two thirds of students use loans to help finance their college education. Many of these students are still youngsters with little or no experience of dealing with finances and fail to understand the implications …

Reasons to Have Medicare Supplement Insurance Retiring is something that many people are going to want to do, but might not think is possible because of the amount of affordable health care coverage they will …

A bond is a premium debt security that investors typically associate with security and moderate returns.  After all, buying bonds and holding it for the term is the general idea. However, investors might purchase bond for purposes …

Kraft Foods, Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is currently North America’s largest food and beverage supplier. Kraft, which was formed in 1923, is headquartered in Northfield, Illinois and trades for $38.30 with a market capitalization of $67.67 …

Everyone is looking for a way to save money these days. Coming up with a monthly budget is essential in practicing a frugal lifestyle. The first step is to sit down and analyze your past monthly …

Universal life insurance originated in the 1980’s. It was an innovation in the life insurance business facilitated by the availability of powerful computers and sophisticated computer systems. Universal life policies are a variation of the …

Phrasing how this nation finds a way to alleviate the joint economic and mortgage crises with terms such as “fair” and “bail out” slants the debate by invoking qualities the majority would deem good versus …

General liability insurance for small business owners provides broad protection against claims by persons who are injured or whose property is damaged as a consequence of the insured’s business operations. It is a way to …

Financial issues are almost always thought to be the realm of adults exclusively. However, it is true that we might just need a change in the way that we think about this. Teenagers need to …

In this economy, everyone is trying to come up with ways to make more money or spend less. If you look it up in a search engine, you won’t find a whole lot of ideas. …

Credit card companies targeting immature, innocent and vulnerable college students is like a liquor company setting up a bar with nickel drinks across the street from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. It is cruel. It is …

Too often, it is the often-overlooked branch of our federal government that affects the real decisions facing our nations more prudently than either of the other, more-transient branches are capable. Whereas the Clinton administration placed …