Imagine making over $200,000 a year and not being able to afford a home. It seems crazy, but in the big real estate markets it's not uncommon at all. This Wall Street Journal article on a couple...

So the news is out that personal finance guru Suze Orman is gay. And it's killing her pocketbook. Seems if she could marry her partner Kathy Travis they could avoid some nasty estate taxes upon...

The new hip thing to do in corporate America is to get people to make commercials or videos about your products and then give away a prize for the best ones. For example, there was a Super Bowl...

Here we are on part 17 of the 29-part series tracing Warren Buffet's words of wisdom from his yearly letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Let's take a look at the year 1993, shall we?...

I did a little profile of Zecco, the free stock trading service, back in September when it was first launching. I was a bit skeptical of its chances, and still am, but I think a new product introduced...

In my third hour of snow blowing yesterday, I began to think about how I was missing work due to the lousy weather conditions and that no one in California had a foot of snow to reckon with. Then I......

Listen... Liz Pulliam Weston: I don't think much of affluent or even middle-class people artificially impoverishing themselves to qualify for a federal insurance program that was designed for the...

Looking from the outside in, you'd probably think that when marriages and other long-term relationships go bad, it's usually due to marrying too young, infidelity, maybe getting fat. You know,...

If you haven't heard, this year you're getting a tax refund. That's not to say you won't still pay taxes, but no matter who you are, you're getting some cash back due to the...

Back in October I wrote about Motley Fool CAPS, a stock picking community that Motley Fool had just introduced. (Here are my awesome picks from back then---I'm still in the top 10%of players even...