Tick. Tick. Beware the mortgage time-bomb

Mortgage rates have been trending down, but that won’t do much to benefit those who signed up for low-teaser-rate adjustable-rate mortgages in the past few years.

Powerful. Quiet. Best leaf blowers
Does any lawn-care implement inspire more controversy and vitriol than the leaf blower?

Rethinking Your Finances
Experts predicted that money habits would change after 9/11. But did they really?

When an adviser pitches universal life
My husband and I are in our 30s and have retirement plans through our employers. We’ve been working with an insurance agent who wants my husband to forego funding his 401(k) plan, which doesn’t offer company matching funds, and instead invest for retirement through a universal life policy.

Holding Firm on Web Stocks
The Internet’s fair-weather friends have flown. But I’m staying put.

Time to Dump Your AmEx Card?
The company just announced changes to its charge cards and rewards program.

Millionaires in the Making
Sid and Divya Arora recently returned from a beautiful honeymoon in Hawaii, taking a leisurely cruise through the islands. Only thing is, they waited nine months after they got married to take the trip.

Playing Energy’s Top
The long bull market for energy looks to be over. But there are still opportunities.

Our kids’ friends are breaking our bank
QUESTION: We have many children in our family, and our children have many friends. Often their friends are visitors in our home, and it’s not unusual for one or more of them to wind up coming along when our family goes out to a movie, the skating rink or a casual meal. Are we wrong to expect these kids’ parents to chip in for such excursions? Just with the snacks, this is getting very expensive.

Colossally Stupid
H-P should have worried less about leakers, and more about what was being leaked.