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What happens when a company you count on to protect your possessions — or even your life — fails? Unfortunately, you can’t just go and withdraw your money as soon as you hear about brewing...

This market has a lot going for it: Earnings growth so far has been strong, global growth is re-emerging, and fiscal policy could (eventually) help. Let’s also not forget, there aren’t many other...

Banks aren’t created to provide you with free financial services. They’re here to make money just like any other business. In fact, the U.S. banking industry netted $160.5 billion last year and...

Want to make money in today’s market? Then I have a very simple, secret piece of advice for you … Forget politics! Nine-tenths of what you’re hearing or seeing out of Washington these days is...

The U.S. dollar can’t get out of its own way. It’s falling against the euro. It’s falling against the British pound. It’s falling against the Swiss franc. It’s falling against the Canadian dollar,...

The healthcare reform debate keeps raging in Washington. But two trends are clear from our unbiased analysis of data from more than 1,600 individual health insurance companies: The number of...

Politicians keep cooking up plans to boost the economy’s growth rate. But what’s so bad about 2% growth? According to my work, “Nothing!” We just got the second-quarter GDP report, and it showed...

The Dodd-Frank Act – Three words that make the financial industry cringe. Banks, credit unions, and the big dogs on Wall Street have been struggling to keep up with the law, and fighting it on...

Is this a Commodities Comeback I spy? Copper futures just hit their highest since May 2015. Lumber futures are approaching their 2004 housing bubble peak. Crude oil is climbing off the mat,...

As you may know, buying life insurance is one of the easiest activities to procrastinate over. Most people must go through some life-altering event before they’re even willing to talk about life...