Personal Economics
  • If you’re sick or work in a dangerous profession, you may need mortgage protection insurance.

    Do You Need Mortgage Protection Insurance?

    By G.M. Filisko

    Mortgage protection insurance could be a smart option for high-risk occupation or health candidates, but the decision requires examining overall finances, life insurance plan.

  • High-yield checking accounts offer top rates but some customers must jump through a series of hoops to earn those returns.

    High-Yield Checking Perks Have Strings

    By Sheyna Steiner

    High-yield checking accounts may offer enticing interest rates, but watch out for required monthly transactions and inflated yield balance caps

  • Saving Versus Investing

    By Jane Bryant Quinn

    Don’t unnecessarily build up savings; use your paycheck to invest in a tax-favored retirement account, pay off high-interest debt and consider prepaying your mortgage.

  • The health overhaul package would extend insurance coverage to 32 million additional Americans by 2019.

    Consumers Guide To Health Reform

    By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

    The health overhaul package passed by the House Sunday and sent to the Senate for final action is the most far-reaching health legislation since the creation of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

  • The Giddy, Greedy Impact of Delusion Economics

    By The Fiscal Times Staff

    Based on an in-depth analysis of some 250 financial crises over 200 years, the housing and jobs recovery has a way to go. And it might be time to take out inflation insurance. This time is different...