A “handsel” is a gift given to wish good luck for the year ahead. The word dates back to the 1300s, and derives from “hand” […]
Do we have an 8-year memory in an industry with 10-year business cycles? Bridging the gap between affordability, qualifying with a low income, and rising […]
Would you tie up your money for five years and earn 1.26 percent the whole time? That’s pretty much where the $57 billion 5-year Treasury […]
Whether or not you think that climate change is real, you can’t deny that there is a climate, and that climate-related disasters occur… to the […]
I hope that you’re not reading this while stuck due to the thousands of cancelled flights or road closures in Northern California! Kudos to Carol […]
From Pennsylvania, Glenn F. writes, “Banks need to get better at restocking their ATMs, especially at Christmas time!! I just left my 5th one that […]
When I was a kid, we’d trade baseball cards between each other… at least the ones that weren’t in the spokes of our bikes. The […]
Yes, you should know that today is a date palindrome. Of course people in Ohio, and Florida, know that Key West is farther west than […]
If you are a VA lender, or service servicemembers’ loans, you don’t want to be singled out by the Department of Justice or the CFPB. […]
W.C. Fields said, “Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.” Unfortunately, many people have much less of […]
