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Here’s a great idea — we’ll have your family meet with a high-powered salesman when they’re utterly distraught. The salesman will attempt to up-sell on all sorts of customized items, …

Imagine living in a place where there is no government, no regulation, no taxation, and certainly no objections to anything that will alter your mind. It’s a place beyond the …

The modern trend toward ubiquitous smartphones and connected devices actually started in Japan, a long time before it washed onto the shores of the US. In the Land of the …

Most people are aware that the Great Recession of 2008 was triggered by sub-prime lending, what those of us in the real estate industry called a “no-doc” loan, also called …

A Republican federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit that claimed Obamacare subsidies can only go to residents of a state with its own insurance market. The decision is a setback …

Samuel Wurzelbacher, the former conservative commentator who achieved some notoriety during the 2008 presidential election over a  question he asked candidate Barack Obama, has joined the United Auto Workers — …

You see them on TV — the parade of “B” actors talking in smooth, reassuring tones about how great a reverse mortgage can be. If it’s such a great deal, …

When the big banks crashed our economy, froze credit markets, and put the entire global economy on the brink, our government responded by giving the very banks that caused the …

In the years prior to the housing crash, builders were getting silly with the size of houses. Even in relatively modest neighborhoods, it was not unusual to find homes that …

Asian markets are getting clobbered today, and the Japanese markets have officially reached “correction” territory. The contagion spread to US markets after manufacturing numbers missed projections; the numbers didn’t miss …