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Whether or not now is a good time to buy real estate depends, as most things do in finance, on time and amount. For example, if you have been renting for the last year or two and have saved up 20% for a down payment and you just found the house of your [...]

Maybe I’m a little late to the party, but I just got a hold of Windows Live Writer, and I have to tell you it makes posting to the blog way easier! I love it. Anyway it is part of Windows Live which is apparently Microsoft’s attempt to compete with Google’s expanding repertoire [...]

I’ve decided to do a new series here at Finance Gourmet on the psychology of money.  Virtually all the emails I get and questions I’m being asked from both online and in person lately have to do more with psychology than they do with raw numbers and math.  I already have about eleven topics [...]

The official headline is J.P. Morgan buys Bear Stearns for $2 a share. The real headline is that for the first time since the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s, a major US bank has gone belly up.

Ah, memories.  Not that I know Eliot Spitzer or anything really about sex scandals or about call girls.  I do know that this is what staffers are for!  Hello?  Using your own phone and voice to call about illegal activities?  I’m guessing most of our politicians are a little smarter than this.

If, like me you file away all of your various tax statements and reports as they come in, you might just now be opening them. What you might not have noticed in your quest to pull out your 1099-DIV or what have you is that the company’s legally required once per year Privacy Policy [...]