We have $30,000 left on our $400,000 mortgage, which we took out three years after we married. In the current market, it appraises for $800,000. After the birth of our first child 12 years ago, I ...

Almost 20 years ago, I took out a 20-year term life insurance policy for $500,000 and named my wife as beneficiary. The annual premiums were a couple hundred dollars. The term is up and the new annual ...

Because of my brother's delinquent tax and student-loan issues, I have been named sole heir and executor of my parents' estate. Baby brother expects me to administer the estate and give him his half ...

At 57, the rule of thumb suggests that your husband should have roughly 43% of his investments in stocks, and the rest in bonds and other safer havens to shield him from a downturn in the market in ...

Along with this more than fivefold increase in billion-dollar disasters came rising insurance costs - exacerbated by weather disasters striking densely populated areas more frequently, the rising ...

In contrast, mass deportations of undocumented immigrants would tank the U.S. economy. If President Donald Trump can limit himself to booting criminals and those under existing deportation orders, and ...

Many homeowners now choose to go skip insurance altogether, owing to the difficulty of obtaining coverage at all or even at a reasonable price. Insurance coverage has been diminishing in many respects ...

Consider the junk-bond spread, which is the additional yield above ultra-safe U.S. Treasury bonds that investors demand for incurring the risk of high-yield, or "junk" bonds. Nowadays they're not ...

Another seasonal trend is the four-year U.S. presidential cycle. In general, the market rises modestly in the first year after a presidential election, followed by trouble in the second year. In years ...

He is disabled and on Medicare because of multiple organ transplants - two livers and a kidney - but his wife is employed. Just last week he fell again at home, and this time the pain was so great he ...

Fans are also favoring the Eagles at FanDuel's sportsbook, with 59% of the bets coming in on the Birds to win. Bettors are also thinking that the Eagles-Chiefs matchup will be a high-scoring Super ...

To be sure, as the threat of tariffs has escalated in recent months, gold (GC00) has been in a strong bull market - surging above $2,900 this week for the first time ever. It is up more than 10% just ...