This morning I was on the Brian Lehrer show talking about the Obama Administration’s conference on the future of housing finance. You can listen to the interview here.
One thing that came up during the interview was this concept of renting. Strange as it may seem, renting is a key part of the housing market. Indeed, tens of millions of …
There was a good day in the stock market on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 posting a solid 1.2% gain and the Dow rising a bit less at 1%. Bonds lost some ground due to stronger than expected economic reports. Note that I didn’t write “strong” economic reports because we certainly didn’t have that. Wholesale prices nudged up a bit (easing …
Today the Obama Administration will host a conference on the future of housing finance. It’s a great topic, considering that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are more than $150 billion in the hole. But this is about more than what to do with the GSEs.
There are bigger questions to ask about how we approach home ownership in the U.S. For …
In the not so distant past the Great Atlantic & Pacific, the A&P, dominated retailing in the U.S. the way Walmart wished it did. A&P once had more than 13,000 stores; it set prices in the market and enforced them. God help any competitor who ran afoul of Great A&P. Now, a little divine intervention might be useful for the 21st century …
Summer’s almost gone! What happened? Tune in next week (starting Monday, August 23) for more It’s Your Money posts.
“Not only are banks packaging the overdraft ‘service’ in a deceptive way (e.g. Account Protector), they are allowing their employees to sell it to customers whose language or cultural differences make it difficult or impossible to understand.”
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Included in this week’s roundup: colleges where tuition is free, best online savings accounts, stuff the cell-phone companies won’t tell you, unconventional ways to find jobs, worst items to buy at drugstores, reasons you might want to totally ignore your credit score, and justifications for why you’re not buying a diamond engagement …
Looks like we’re headed for another, repetitive round of U.S.-China bickering over Chinese exports. The U.S. trade deficit with China in June rose to $26 billion, the widest gap in nearly two years. Meanwhile, the reform of China’s currency regime, announced by Beijing in June, has proven to be not much of a reform at all, since the …
If you were running a company and one of your employees went ballistic on a customer before loading up on booze and dramatically storming off, thus garnering national attention, what would you do? Probably not respond by a blog post that prominently features a clip from Office Space, the 1999 movie about the humiliations and frustrations …
Here’s a round-up of everything from how to cook with dried beans to how to ask for a raise, from how to negotiate for a cheaper cell-phone bill to how to figure out how much house you can really afford.
KGB Deals is selling AMC Theatre movie tickets—which normally run up to $12.50—for $4 a pop. The offer is valid for theaters in select cities around the country: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Tickets will be mailed only to people who live in the greater metropolitan areas of …
