What are Your Financial Fears?
November 6, 2007
If you had to reveal your greatest financial fear, what would that be? Loss of a job? Stock market crash? Falling home prices?
Consumer Savings Accounts Dropping
October 30, 2007
The last time American consumer savings dropped in negative ground and stayed there for a full year was during the Great Depression of 1932-33. Until now.
APRs, EARs, AERs
October 27, 2007
In all mortgage, loan and credit card documentation these days, the headline rate of interest can be confusing and, to be frank, misleading. The real comparison comes with annual equivalent rate (AER), equivalent annual rate (EAR) or annual percentage rate (APR). But what do these terms mean?