Here's a chart that I saw today from a reliable source. It shows the total debt of households, businesses and the government. There are two things that are quite clear from the chart:

1. Total debt has increased e...

Since it's almost the end of the year, I wanted to focus our question on ideas and strategies that can help us make last minute changes to help lessen the tax burden, or to start the year with best practices.
Let's h...

I am 24 years old and have recently graduated with my master’s degree (read: not rich). I have a job secured in Dallas that pays $50k pre-tax, and I’ve been pre-approved for up to $211,000. I’ve been listening to BP p...

A fellow contributor here, John Carbone, sent me a link yesterday to a lot for sale in the Smokies.  The price certainly seemed reasonable.  It so happened that I know the owner of the lot.  He is one of our homeowner...