Items by By RON LIEBER
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Your Money: How to Raise a Financial Guru
Posted: May 5th, 2012, 12:38am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Several young authors of financial advice books say they were taught at an early age to be mindful about money.
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Your Money: Home-Sharing? Don’t Overlook Your Liability - Your Money
Posted: April 20th, 2012, 3:47pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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If you are temporarily renting your home to out-of-town guests, check on your liability with your insurer should someone get hurt.
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Your Money: Enthusiastic About Car Sharing? Your Insurer Isn’t
Posted: March 17th, 2012, 1:11am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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The idea of renting out personal cars has attracted interest from car owners, start-up companies and even venture capitalists. But the insurance industry is a big wet blanket.
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Your Money: Why the Web Lacks Authoritative Reviews of Doctors
Posted: March 10th, 2012, 12:05am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Many patients fear tangling with a litigious doctor, or being blackballed by the profession after a negative review of one of its members.
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Your Money: Financial Advice for Those With Hummingbird Nest Eggs
Posted: January 14th, 2012, 1:20am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Although the class snobbery among brokerage firms is fading, people of modest means still find it hard to receive reasonably priced financial advice.
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Your Money: Financial Tips for the Year Ahead - Your Money
Posted: December 31st, 2011, 1:10am EST by By RON LIEBER
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A column that catches up with people who faced financial turning points in 2011.
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Verizon Wireless Abandons $2 Fee After Consumer Outcry
Posted: December 31st, 2011, 12:52am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Verizon Wireless bowed to consumer anger on Friday, reversing a day-old plan to impose a bill-paying fee that would have applied to only some customers.
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Verizon Wireless Abandons $2 Fee After Consumer Outcry
Posted: December 31st, 2011, 12:52am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Verizon Wireless bowed to consumer anger on Friday, reversing a day-old plan to impose a bill-paying fee that would have applied to only some customers.
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Your Money: 4 Money Pitfalls Every Widow Should Avoid
Posted: September 2nd, 2011, 7:40pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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A spouse dies, and the widow must handle a variety of financial tasks, like investing and paying taxes, when her emotions are raw.
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Your Money: Resisting the Urge to Run Away From Home
Posted: August 5th, 2011, 2:45pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Scaling back on stocks in countries with economic woes might be tempting, but few knee-jerk investing strategies born in uncertain times prove wise.
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Your Money: Resisting the Urge to Run Away From Home
Posted: August 5th, 2011, 2:45pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Scaling back on stocks in countries with economic woes might be tempting, but few knee-jerk investing strategies born in uncertain times prove wise.
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Bucks: Most Students Spared Big Cuts in Debt Bill
Posted: August 1st, 2011, 5:54pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Undergraduates with certain federal student loans won't have to pay interest while enrolled more than half time, but graduate students will, under the deficit deal.
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Bucks: Most Students Spared Big Cuts in Debt Bill
Posted: August 1st, 2011, 5:54pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Undergraduates with certain federal student loans won't have to pay interest while enrolled more than half time, but graduate students will, under the deficit deal.
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Your Money: Revealing Hidden Costs of Your 401(k)
Posted: June 11th, 2011, 1:54am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Administrative fees in many retirement plans can be substantial, and they aren’t always levied equitably.
NYT > Health
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Your Money: The Changes to Save a Big Idea
Posted: April 30th, 2011, 1:10am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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The Class Act, the part of last year’s health care overhaul that aims to provide a framework for nationwide long-term care insurance, will need support from employers to ensure its success.
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Your Money: Bargains on the First 4 Semesters
Posted: April 9th, 2011, 4:10am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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The most important things to think about if you’re trying to save money by starting at a community college.
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Bucks: Good News for Spouses of Reverse Mortgage Holders
Posted: April 7th, 2011, 6:28pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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HUD appears to change its mind on reverse mortgages in the wake of legal pressure from the AARP Foundation.
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Your Money: Adding It Up: Amazon Ship vs. Costco Shop
Posted: March 5th, 2011, 2:10am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Costco is popular for its low prices, but shopping there can take time. Does Amazon’s Subscribe & Save service provide a better alternative?
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Bucks: What Could I.B.M.'s Watson Do for You?
Posted: February 17th, 2011, 4:51pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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I.B.M.'s supercomputer Watson probably knows where the beach balls are at Wal-Mart, what to do with the $3.99 skirt steak at the grocery store and many other things.
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Your Money: The Gamble of Lending Peer to Peer
Posted: February 5th, 2011, 12:23am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Using the Web sites Prosper and Lending Club, individual investors can lend money at decent interest rates to other individuals. But it’s hardly risk-free.
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Your Money: Finding Success, Passionate Followers in Tow
Posted: January 28th, 2011, 11:10pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Dimensional Fund Advisors has taken a quirky, exclusive approach that has endeared it to its clients.
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Bucks: Gordon Murray, Former Investment Banker, Dies at 60
Posted: January 18th, 2011, 4:02pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Gordon Murray, a former investment banker who came to believe in a different form of investing and wrote a book about it, has died. He was was the subject of a Your Money column in November.
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Your Money: As Big Banks Raise Fees, You Have Options
Posted: January 14th, 2011, 2:33pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Don’t believe it when big banks say that new regulations are forcing them to impose checking account fees.
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Your Money: As Big Banks Raise Fees, You Have Options
Posted: January 14th, 2011, 2:27pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Don’t believe it when big banks say that new regulations are forcing them to impose checking account fees.
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Your Money: In College, Learning About Money
Posted: January 8th, 2011, 2:53am EST by By RON LIEBER
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College students often enter the real world with little knowledge of financial basics. Champlain College is trying to correct that.
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Your Money: Putting That Tax Holiday to Work
Posted: December 24th, 2010, 8:03pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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A little planning will help you get the most out of a yearlong discount on your payroll taxes in 2011.
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Your Money: Citi Deals a New Deck of Credit Cards
Posted: December 18th, 2010, 1:56am EST by By RON LIEBER
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The bank is retiring some cards, adding new ones, raising annual fees and adding some perks.
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Your Money: Why Savings Account Rates Are So Pathetic
Posted: December 4th, 2010, 2:53am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Financial institutions are paying next to nothing on savings accounts and not much more on certificates of deposit. What’s a saver to do?
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Your Money: A Dying Banker’s Last Financial Instructions
Posted: November 26th, 2010, 12:07pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Gordon Murray, a former managing director at Lehman and Credit Suisse First Boston, has brain cancer and a desire to show people a better way to invest.
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Your Money: Buying a Foreclosure Home Is Not for the Timid
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 6:47pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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An Atlanta woman’s long months of searching meant a lot of hard work and uncertainty, but, finally a home.
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Your Money: Underwriting a Child’s Business Poses Pitfalls for Parents
Posted: October 23rd, 2010, 12:50am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Parents can help their children, but when lending them money, Mom and Dad should think like professionals.
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Bucks: Debt’s Threat to Black Families
Posted: October 21st, 2010, 1:16pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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A CNN documentary, "Almighty Debt," focuses on the financial standing of black families.
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Your Money: Avoid Foreclosure Market Until the Dust Settles
Posted: October 16th, 2010, 1:23am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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There are certainly good deals in the market, but the pitfalls are many.
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Your Money: After Foreclosure, a Focus on Title Insurance
Posted: October 9th, 2010, 1:40am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Title insurance might feel like a tax during the home-buying process, but the questions now surrounding foreclosures have made its importance crystal-clear.
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Your Money: In Mortgage Ad, Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
Posted: October 2nd, 2010, 12:30am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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ING Direct says it prides itself on telling the truth. But it has been less than completely candid in peddling its latest mortgage offering.
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Credit Card Formerly Known as Schwab
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 12:14pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Schwab is leaving the card business, endangering its 2 percent cash-back credit card.
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Your Money: Some Suggestions for the New Consumer Chief
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 4:13pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Tasks that Elizabeth Warren might grapple with as the leader of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Your Money: Some Suggestions for the New Consumer Chief
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 4:13pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Tasks that Elizabeth Warren might grapple with as the leader of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Your Money: How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 12:40am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Because one person’s debt becomes a shared responsibility in marriage, when do you reveal a substantial liability?
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Your Money: In Defense of Home Ownership
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 3:20am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Many home purchases could still end in grief financially, particularly in hard-hit areas. But most probably won’t.
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Your Money: Credit and Debit Cards That Enforce Your Budget
Posted: August 14th, 2010, 4:10am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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MasterCard is about to introduce tools for credit and debit cards that let consumers block a highly customizable array of purchases.
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Your Money: The Coming Class War Over Public Pensions
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 8:56pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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State governments have promised more in benefits than they have in their pension plans, leading to battles over who should pay to fill the gap.
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Your Money: Three Auto Dealer Tactics That Financial Reform Missed
Posted: July 18th, 2010, 4:00am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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The financial regulation bill fails to provide oversight of some of the more troublesome loan practices of auto dealers.
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Your Money: ‘Daddy, Are We Rich?’ and Other Tough Questions
Posted: July 9th, 2010, 6:11pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Children can say the darnedest things, but when they start asking financial questions, it’s best to be prepared.
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Your Money: Dividends Like BP’s Look Safe, Until They’re Not
Posted: June 16th, 2010, 4:02pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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For investors, the moral of the BP story is clear: diversify — not only into other stocks, but also into other sources of income, like annuities, interest and even asset sales.
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Your Money: A Move to Ease Student Debt Burden
Posted: June 4th, 2010, 9:30pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Much of the debt from student loans cannot be erased through bankruptcy, but there’s a movement to change the law.
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Changes to Chase's Continental Credit Cards
Posted: June 3rd, 2010, 5:05pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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One card offers upgrades for those with elite status using free tickets, and another offers better bonuses to qualify for status.
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Your Money: Another Debt Crisis Is Brewing, This One in Student Loans
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 9:46pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Is it really worth $100,000 in debt to graduate from a top school? And is it responsible?
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Reckoning for a Financial Planner
Posted: May 28th, 2010, 8:00pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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What's the moral when your former adviser is sentenced to eight years in prison?
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Your Money: An Overhaul’s Impact on Your Pocketbook
Posted: May 21st, 2010, 8:10pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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The Senate’s version of the overhaul bill could result in more discounts to people who pay in cash.
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Magazine Preview: Net-Worth Obsession
Posted: May 12th, 2010, 4:49pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Joey Kincer $201,000 $65,000 32 $2,000 Calif. $203,000We all wonder how much money others have. Joey Kincer and other net-worth trackers are letting us in on the secret.
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Financial Tuneup: Review Your Life Insurance
Posted: May 4th, 2010, 4:10pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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If you've had another child or are now supporting aging parents, you may want to buy more life insurance.
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Financial Tuneup: Walk Someone Through Your Files
Posted: April 20th, 2010, 5:44pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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If you die, someone will need to close down your financial accounts. So tell a friend or family member where you keep your important documents.
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Charles Schwab Stops Offering 2 Percent Credit Cards
Posted: April 16th, 2010, 2:10pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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When customers don't carry balances on their credit cards, it's hard for a company to continue offering generous card rewards.
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Financial Tuneup: Check the Rules on Your Rewards Programs
Posted: April 14th, 2010, 3:38pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Rules change, partners disappear and points become orphaned. So check the rules of your rewards and loyalty programs each year.
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Financial Tuneup: Automate Your Debt Payments
Posted: April 13th, 2010, 3:37pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Have your credit card company (and other lenders) automatically take the minimum payment from your bank account each month. Then, pay more if you can.
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New Rules Crack Down on Free Credit-Score Offers
Posted: April 7th, 2010, 11:38pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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To sidestep Federal Trade Commission rules, freecreditreport.com is now charging $1 for credit reports.
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Your Money: Health Savings Accounts Survive Medical Overhaul
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 11:21pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Health Savings Accounts provide a nice tax break, but investors first have to hurdle the restrictions.
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Your Money: In Most Cases, Best to Pass Up Overdraft Protection
Posted: March 12th, 2010, 11:20pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Many bank customers are having to decide whether to ask for overdraft protection. Most should say no.
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Your Money: A Card Fee Still Hides in the Luggage
Posted: February 19th, 2010, 4:32pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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The Credit Card Act is reducing some fees, but the one on foreign transactions, an industry profit center, was not touched.
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Your Money: Credit Card Limits for Youth Can Be Opportunity for Parents
Posted: February 13th, 2010, 12:55am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Rules that limit access to credit cards until the age of 21 go into effect this month, which is good news and bad for parents.
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Your Money: The Odds of a Disability Are Themselves Odd
Posted: February 6th, 2010, 1:33am EST by By RON LIEBER
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The disability insurance industry would love for you to buy a policy and has the scary numbers to sway you.
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Your Money: The Damage of Card Rewards
Posted: January 9th, 2010, 12:45am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Fees that merchants build to cover rewards programs lead to higher prices, which are passed on to poorer consumers.
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Your Money: For Savers, It Was Hardly a Lost Decade
Posted: January 1st, 2010, 2:14pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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With diversification and regular contributions, many investors could have doubled their account balances in the last decade.
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Your Money: For Savers, It Was Hardly a Lost Decade
Posted: January 1st, 2010, 2:14pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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With diversification and regular contributions, many investors could have doubled their account balances in the last decade.
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Your Money: Doing Good by Paying Forward
Posted: December 25th, 2009, 10:26am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Microfinancing is becoming a popular way of donating to nonprofits by giving or lending money through an online marketplace of sorts.
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Your Money: Redeem the Entire Gift Card, or Give the Store a Present
Posted: December 11th, 2009, 3:20pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Major retailers and banks often benefit from the unspent portions of holiday gift cards. But consumers don’t seem to notice.
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Your Money: Financial Decisions to Make as You Divorce
Posted: November 13th, 2009, 3:46pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Divorcing couples often don’t think of all the financial problems that can arrive after the split. Here’s a list of issues to discuss before the paperwork is final.
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Your Money: Money Issues That Can Test Even a Rock-Solid Marriage
Posted: November 6th, 2009, 11:17pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Money may be the root of all evil, and in a marriage it can certainly be the seed of trouble. Here are five things couples should do to sidestep difficulties.
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Your Money: The Fight Over Flexible Spending Accounts
Posted: September 25th, 2009, 5:47pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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To help pay for a health care bill, one proposal involves capping the amount people can put into special accounts for health-related spending.
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Chase and Bank of America Revise Fee Policies
Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 1:23am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Two banks are changing their debit card programs to end some charges that have enraged consumers.
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Chase and Bank of America Revise Fee Policies
Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 10:13pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Two banks are changing their debit card programs to end some charges that have enraged consumers.
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Your Money: Hurry Up and Credit My Account
Posted: September 18th, 2009, 11:25pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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In a digital age, banks still operate under old laws on how quickly they credit accounts when consumers make deposits. Can procedures be speeded up?
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Your Money: 7 New Rules for First-Time Home Buyers
Posted: September 11th, 2009, 6:39pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Stretch financially to buy your first house, so-called experts used to say. No more. A damaged financial system requires new strategies.
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Your Money: Why College Costs Rise, Even in a Recession
Posted: September 4th, 2009, 8:39pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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If you have paid college tuition recently, you probably have questions. Where does all that money go? And why doesn’t the price tag ever fall?
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Your Money: Why College Costs Rise, Even in a Recession
Posted: September 4th, 2009, 7:34pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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If you have paid college tuition recently, you probably have questions. Where does all that money go? And why doesn’t the price tag ever fall?
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Your Money: How Retirees Can Spend Enough, but Not Too Much
Posted: August 28th, 2009, 10:14pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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One adviser offers a formula that helps retirees raise or lower their withdrawals depending on the performance of the stock market.
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Your Money: It May Be Time to Find a New Credit Card
Posted: August 21st, 2009, 3:11pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Credit cards are raising rates and fees as new federal rules take effect. But if your credit is good, you can always switch card issuers.
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Your Money: A Hand Up for Students Facing a Mountain of Debt
Posted: August 14th, 2009, 4:41pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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SafeStart aims to reduce the fear of debt that might keep 18-year-olds from borrowing for school in the first place.
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Your Money: Card Users, Take Heart: One Penalty Is Vanishing
Posted: August 11th, 2009, 1:17am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Other credit card companies might decide that it’s worth it to follow the lead of American Express and Discover and eliminate over-limit fees.
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Your Money: Good Luck Getting Private Insurance for Unemployment
Posted: August 8th, 2009, 1:42am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Paycheck replacement coverage is scarce, if it exists at all.
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Your Money: Converting an I.R.A. Into a Roth? How’s Your Crystal Ball?
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 10:49pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Tax laws change, making the decision to turn a regular individual retirement account into a Roth potentially difficult.
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Your Money: When the Fledglings Return to the Nest
Posted: July 10th, 2009, 10:03pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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It’s a quandary that Dr. Spock didn’t address: How should parents handle adult children coming back home to live?
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Your Money: A Day to Tackle the Financial To-Do List
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 3:14pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Taking time, 10 or 12 hours, to tackle ever-postponed money tasks and clear the books can be lucrative.
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Rags to Riches and Back
Posted: June 12th, 2009, 11:57pm EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Two chronicles of the final days of the “working class” investment bank, by Kate Kelly and William D. Cohan.
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Your Money: Finding Financial Advice in an Age of Bad Behavior
Posted: June 6th, 2009, 2:47am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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An organization of financial advisers says that a few reported rotten apples should not taint the entire group.
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Your Money: Consumers Are Dealt a New Hand in Credit Cards
Posted: May 20th, 2009, 8:00am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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A primer on the new restrictions that credit card companies face, and some reassurances on those rewards programs.
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Your Money: Consumers Are Dealt a New Hand in Credit Cards
Posted: May 20th, 2009, 8:00am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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A primer on the new restrictions that credit card companies face, and some reassurances on those rewards programs.
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Your Money: Consumers Are Dealt a New Hand in Credit Cards
Posted: May 20th, 2009, 8:00am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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A primer on the new restrictions that credit card companies face, and some reassurances on those rewards programs.
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Your Money: Helping Out With Cash: A Delicate Art
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 12:39am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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People who want to financially help those close to them might first ask themselves some questions on the best way to do it.
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Your Money: Not Laid Off? How to Aid the Less Fortunate
Posted: March 21st, 2009, 1:13am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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There are many ways to give support to friends and former colleagues who’ve lost their jobs.
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Your Money: Thoughts on Walking Away From Your Home Loan
Posted: March 14th, 2009, 1:36am EDT by By RON LIEBER
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Moral hazard aside, the consequences of giving up on your mortgage may not be as painful as they once were.
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Your Money: Savings Accounts for All: Simple, but Not Easy
Posted: March 7th, 2009, 1:13am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Automatic enrollment is a key factor in establishing near universal workplace savings accounts, but then it gets complex.
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Your Money: Not All Certificates of Deposit Are Plain Vanilla — or Safe
Posted: February 21st, 2009, 1:34am EST by By RON LIEBER
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A scandal involving securities that were called C.D.’s suggests that even these conservative investments warrant a close look.
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Your Money: Legacy of a Crisis: A Generation Shy of Risk
Posted: February 14th, 2009, 12:06am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Young investors caught in the financial downturn still have time on their side.
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Your Money: American Express Kept a (Very) Watchful Eye on Charges
Posted: January 30th, 2009, 8:13pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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Until this week, American Express scrutinized how its cardholders spent money, searching for similarities to other customers with bill-paying problems.
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Your Money: Doing the Right Thing by Paying the Nanny Tax
Posted: January 24th, 2009, 12:01am EST by By RON LIEBER
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Consider a couple of reasons it may be wise for people who are not paying their housekeeper or baby sitter’s taxes to reconsider.
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Your Money: Preparing Your Budget for Disaster
Posted: January 16th, 2009, 4:59pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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What would happen to your finances if you lost your job tomorrow?
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Your Money: When Cash Is Scarce, There’s Comfort in Miles
Posted: January 10th, 2009, 12:55am EST by By RON LIEBER
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It’s time to appreciate and evaluate your frequent flier and other rewards programs.
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Your Money: Saving for College Amid the Financial Turmoil
Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 2:55pm EST by By RON LIEBER
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If a family puts too much money in stocks, it could easily lose a year’s worth of tuition in a matter of months.