MoneyWise
Headline News Archive
2008
August
04
- Fares so high, only rich can fly?. Deregulation of the airline industry 30 years ago made air travel affordable to most Americans. Rising airfares threaten to again make flying a service for…
03
- Fed up with food prices, many growing it alone. Just beneath an L train subway platform in Brooklyn, Tanika Gentry fingers the deep green leaves of a collard plant in the black soil of…
- Don't fall for the mortgage rip offs. A little-known provision in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, recently signed into law by President Bush, is supposed to help home buyers understand how…
- Low wage workers grapple with insecurity. Low-wage workers in the United States are gripped by increasing financial insecurity as they inch along an economic tightrope made riskier by pervasive job losses…
02
- Housing tax credit is free $7,500 loan. Anyone who has been hesitant about jumping into real estate until conditions settle down should keep in mind these dates: April 9, 2008, through June…
01
- Weigh before you pay: Debit or credit?. Among the debates that tend to vex shoppers — paper bags vs. plastic, plasma TVs vs. LCD — there's one standby: Credit or debit? The…
July
30
- SEC extends market-calming short sale limits. The Securities and Exchange Commission extended on Tuesday an emergency limit on short sales in shares of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and 17 brokerage firms…
- Sprint must reimburse some early termination fees. Sprint Nextel was wrong to charge customers penalty fees of $73 million for early termination of cellphone contracts, a California court ruled yesterday, offering encouragement…
- Mortgage applications hit a 2008 low despite lower rates. Mortgage application volume tumbled 14.1% the week ended July 25, hitting its lowest level of the year, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's weekly application…
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- You can use CD as collateral for a loan. The credit crisis has made getting a loan a little more difficult these days. Frank Micriotti of Middle River wants to know why more people…
- Act now to claim bonus air miles. Got frequent-flier miles? Book your flight before new fees kick in for using those miles. Starting Aug. 6, US Airways will start charging $25 to…
- Los peligros de las tarjetas de débito. Las tarjetas de débito son una buena opción para evitar llevar dinero en efectivo en el bolsillo, pero, ¿cuáles son sus desventajas? ¿Son más útiles…
28
- How safe is your bank?. Nothing says hard times like people standing outside a bank demanding their money. IndyMac Bancorp's (IDMC) failure and the resulting chaos were reminiscent of Depression-era…
- No angry lines of customers after bank takeover. Customers of two banks closed by federal regulators were assured that every penny of their money was protected, preventing lines of angry accountholders from forming…
- Housing rescue bill may fall short. Is it a remedy for the worst housing slump the nation has suffered in decades? Or merely a taxpayer-funded bailout that will fail to reverse…
- Empleos que no sufren la crisis. Un débil crecimiento, una desaceleración de la economía y un mercado inmobiliario por los suelos son todos signos de recesión económica. La buena noticia para…
- ¿A quién ayudará la ley de rescate?. El Senado de Estados Unidos aprobó el proyecto de ley que busca apuntalar al sector hipotecario y que autorizaría préstamos por miles de millones de…
27
- Danger lurks when shopping for school loans. When college financial aid officers got into trouble last year for accepting gifts from lenders, the moral of the story was clear: You could easily…
- Working forever might not work. Baby boomers who never got around to saving as much as they hoped promised to keep working past retirement age. The joke in the generation…
- Helping women think about retirement. Women worry more about retirement than men. We fret more about inflation eroding our purchasing power. We agonize more over declining health and the rising…
- Extending health insurance for young people. hildren are generally dropped from their parents' health insurance when they turn 18 or 19 or graduate from college. But 16 states now require insurers…
- Housing bill unlikely to perform miracles. Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted yesterday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and…
26
- Property tax relief, without itemizing. The giant federal housing and foreclosure relief legislation heading for enactment contains a little-noticed - but potentially far-reaching - change in real estate tax policy.…
25
- It's a buyer's market. Haggle.. If there's any silver lining to this sluggish economy, it's this: You, the consumer, are back in charge. For most products and services, "you have…
24
- Se vislumbra el rescate inmobiliario. La Cámara Baja aprobó ayer un amplio proyecto de vivienda que ayudará a más de 400 mil propietarios a evitar el embargo de sus hogares,…