Editor's Note: Breaking news from our satire department.Goldman Sachs (GS) is dominating the headlines today with its 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative. The $500 million program will unlock the grow

Many people are finding the holiday tradition of making charitable donations difficult again this year, particularly if they're unemployed or worried about the economy. Charities, many of which norma

Have you gotten a “Dear Subscriber” letter from your health insurer lately? If you haven’t, you probably will.It’s the season for notifying individual customers that their mon

Don't forget to pack the health and personal property insurance when you head to college this fall. Both are affordable because most students are healthy and don't have a lot of expensive stuff. But

For many people, this is not an easy time to find money for anything extra, be it a vacation, home repair or new car. One thing that should not be neglected, say financial advisers, is contributions

Back SpreadThis recent rally has left a lot of people scratching their heads. Personally,  I’ve been scratching my back. As in, using a back-spread strategy as a means of establishing some

If only life were that simple -- maybe we could pick health insurance like we do items from the McDonald's (MCD) Dollar Menu (or the bill of fare at Nobu): a la carte. But life isn't simple, so rathe

The most critical difference between former Knick John Starks and Kobe Bryant is that Starks is utterly oblivious to his stat line; Kobe is willing to sublimate himself for the team on the nights he

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of articles. Part 1 is here.Tom Lauricella, writing in the Wall Street Journal, caught my attention with 2 recent articles. The first discussed whether a

Thanks to the Internet, there’s no need to sharpen a pencil and make back-of-the-envelope calculations when drafting a budget, planning for college, or managing your credit. Many people have hu