Debit cards provide a quick and easy way to pay for inexpensive items such as Frappucino’s or deodorant, but they should carry a warning: be careful or this card can cost you a fortune in fees.

Money is a difficult subject. There's much confusion as to what it is. There's even more confusion as to the best way to measure it. Yet, before we can measure it, we have to define it.Here's a descr

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

Peggy Noonan, maybe the most gifted essayist of our time, wrote a few weeks ago about the vague concern that many of us have that the looming monster has the potential (my interpretation) not only to

Tsk tsk, volume abusers. In between tucking in your shirt and wiping the dirt from your face with a saliva-soaked thumb, the European Union has noticed that you might be setting your MP3 player just

An uptick in merger activity saw stocks snap a three day skid to post their biggest gains since the end of August, albeit on anemic volume. Investors enjoyed the view atop both Gander Mountain Compan

This time last year the government was busy bailing out the banks, but now it looks like the banks may be bailing out the government. According to a story in today’s New York Times, regulators

Several weekends ago on Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, one of the world’s most beautiful places, nearly every inch of sand was occupied. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people -- the c

Legendary investor Jim Rogers says he can't wait for the International Monetary Fund to sell some of its gold holdings. Should that cause the price of gold to dip, Rogers says he will buy some more.I

1) Do We Need Debt to Recover?This is a good question. Do we? According to the Wall Street Journal, citing a recent study of all nine post-World War II U.S. recessions by Barclays Capital, the answer