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Trusting souls, fortunes gone 

By JANE BRYANT QUINN

WHY DO people wind up with the Bernie Madoffs of this world? Because they've neglected one of Ronald Reagan's...

Vetting McCain’s Health Plan 

Tax credits would move people out of group plans and into individual policies where the benefits aren’t as good. If you think that “The...

Surviving the Storm: What’s Safe, What’s Not 

If you’re scared, you have reason. We’re BATTLING a financial collapse in the teeth of a spreading recession, not only in the United...

College Needn’t Bankrupt You 

One strategy is to look for ‘merit aid,’ tuition discounts awarded without regard to financial need. For all the scare stories this...

Emerging Markets Are a Must 

These aren’t the same economies that went through the wringer a decade ago. They’re countries with booming growth. China’s...

Think Before Tapping a 401(K) 

You’re allowed to take money only for things like paying medical bills, buying a home or warding off foreclosure. When you’re up...

Slicing Up Assets in Advance 

It’s one thing to write about prenups, and quite another to live through their making. Doing a prenup isn’t for sissies. There I stood,...

Is Anyone Going to Save Us? 

Enough borrowers are still making payments to keep the pools of subprime loans reasonably profitable. We’re in a box. The rising pace of...

Hard Times Mean Hard Thinking 

You’ll almost certainly lose if you try to buy and sell as the market churns up and down. Once again, stocks plunged just when investors...

No More Financial Katrinas 

The government had plenty of power to prevent the mortgage crisis. But regulators didn't do their jobs--and still don't get it. Why did the...