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Real Estate Financial Fitness Q&A
Wondering what’s the latest in real estate? Every year, the Financial Planning Association of New York sponsors a “Financial Fitness Day” at New York University,...
Rent Was Too Damn High. Now It’s Even Higher
The data on housing costs isn’t pretty. Most experts recommend spending no more than one-third of your income on housing, and yet, in a new study, nearly one in...
A New Kind Of Homeless
The Christmas season was not made any brighter by the release of a survey from the U.S. Conference of Mayors showing that the demand for homeless shelter has...
Will We Ever Retire?: How to Retire Cheaply--and Well
If your 401(k) has been mauled, don't despair. You can still retire comfortably by taking control of your expenses--especially housing costs. One popular way to...
In Brief: Sep. 4, 2000
WEB HOAX Shares of Emulex Corp. plunged some 67% last Friday, after a fake press release appeared on the Internet Wire site. It was soon picked up by other...
A Faulty Gauge for Inflation
July's stunning 15.4% annual rise in the consumer price index dramatized anew a serious flaw in the way the Government measures inflation. The Bureau of Labor...
Business: Creative Home Financing
New homeowners these days often feel that getting a mortgage is akin to getting mugged. Soaring interest rates and skyrocketing housing costs mean that fewer...
Living: What Makes Home Sweet
Rating the most desirable cities in the U.S. The ideal place to live in the U.S.? Most of the 5 million Americans who move to a new state each year might...
Business: WHY U.S. HOUSING COSTS TOO MUCH
THE U.S. has long prided itself on being the best-housed nation in human history. Now, that standing is jeopardized by the soaring cost of homes and apartments...
Special Report: A Tale of Two Families
Westerners cannot fail to be fascinated by the living standards of the Chinese; many Chi nese in turn are almost as curious about details of mei-kuo American...
Business: WHY HOUSING COSTS ARE GOING THROUGH THE ROOF
A middle-aged executive recently got that big breaka promotion that transferred him from a branch office in Washington, D.C., to company headquarters in...
Americana: Limiting Limitation
Resting in the foothills of the Rockies, Boulder, Colo. (pop. 85,000), has been called "the nicest small town in the U.S." It wants to stay that way: last year...
The Economy: Quite a Lot More
THE ECONOMY After two years of research, the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week reported that urban dwellers paid more to live "moderately" in 1966 than they...
National Affairs: Hoover's Report
There is no more esteemed confection in the Executive Department of the Government than the word economy. It rolls with a quiver of delight on the tongue of...
9 Handy Financial Rules of Thumb
A rule of thumb is a general guideline, an easy way to approximate a value quickly. But it's not meant to be completely accurate.
Should We Be “Celebrating” Equal Pay Day Today — or in January?
Today is a holiday that no one is interested in celebrating. I’m talking about Equal Pay Day, a sort of anti-holiday marking the sad fact that women still only...
The Surprising Benefits of ‘Boomerang Kids’
As you’ve no doubt heard, thousands of young — and not-so-young — people are returning to the Inn of Mom and Dad to wait out the Great Recession. A whopping 85%...
School’s Out
I’m in a bit of a celebratory mood. You see, I finished graduate school this week. Like nearly half a million other OEF and OIF veterans (431,000 more or less),...
Amid Slowdown, Increasing Labor Strife in China's Manufacturing Belt
China's economic planners face several headaches: bursting credit bubbles, slumping housing sales and poor outlooks in exports markets such as the U.S. and...
Everything You Need to Know About Consumers, Part II
In Part I of this consumer factoid extravaganza, we learned all sorts of weird info about spending habits, housing costs, and family expenditures. For the...
