by The FundPicker | Frugal Living, Personal Finance
How much are you willing to pay to borrow money for 14 days? If you’re reading this blog, probably not much. You’re probably in the anti-payday loan store camp and you probably believe effectively managing revolving debt is part of a frugal lifestyle. What...
by The FundPicker | Investing
The economy is in bad shape. GDP down, unemployment up. Earnings down, layoffs up. But let’s take a second to dissect the kingpins in one sector of the stock market – Tech. Is it sector weakness, or one bad “Apple?” International Business...
by The FundPicker | Investing
“I expect there will be some failures. … I don’t anticipate any serious problems of that sort among the large internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.” Business Week recently ran a fantastic...
by The FundPicker | Mortgages, Personal Finance
The answer is complex and involves a number of variables: current principal amount, current interest rate, closing costs, among others. For simplicity, we’ll follow the example of a recent FinancialHighway.com post with a $160,000 mortgage and current interest...
by The FundPicker | Mortgages, Personal Finance
Everyone is keenly aware of the global economic chaos that has unfolded since an early warning sign was fired on February 27, 2007. The response to the worst housing environment since the Great Depression has been unprecedented: bailouts totaling $8.5 trillion through...
