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Personal finance advice, ideas - Money Magazine
  • Health care is what will bust us
    Entitlement has become a bit of a swear word. In Washington, D.C., it's technically a nonpejorative term for government programs like Social Security and Medicare that aren't subject to the usual budget process.

  • Foreign ETFs to buy now
    Question: After reading thru your column Missing the Boat on International Funds, I'm totally on board with staying away from U.S. stocks. However, I have not found any info on which overseas stocks to look into. Can you give me any insight into foreign ETFs?

  • My dad won't pay me back
    I helped him through a rough patch, but he seems to have forgotten the sizeable debt. Should I hound him or let it go?

  • Why you can't teach money
    When Americans are in financial distress, politicians often call for better education. Case in point: The Economic Recovery Act of 2008 allocates funds to improve borrowers' knowledge of home loans.

  • Frank talk from Barney Frank
    Spend 27 years in Congress and you're bound to encounter more than one financial train wreck. But as Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., sees it, the meltdown in the U.S. housing market poses as much of a threat to the nation's economic well-being as anything he's encountered during his time on Capitol Hill.

  • Is college still worth the price?
    In May, more than 20,000 spectators gathered under blue skies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. to hear Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama deliver the commencement address.

  • 10 easy ways to green your home
    Some of the smartest green ideas are decidedly low-tech. Fact is, the sustainable homes of the future look a lot like those of the past.

  • Making money in a bearish decade
    Question: Over the past ten years, the stock market has gone nowhere and a buy and hold strategy only makes advisers rich. There is plenty of money to be made by buying the dips and selling the rips. Why don't you advise others to do this?

  • 17 ways to raise fast cash
    What credit crunch? Here are 17 ways to get your mitts on some money, ranked from best to worst.

  • 100 Best Places to Live 2008
    Plentiful jobs, excellent schools, affordable housing - America's best small cities have all that and more. See Money's top 100 - including detailed city profiles, homes for sale and more.