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• Mortgage Default: What Would You Tell the Kids?

  By Jolie Solomon | Feb 9, 2010 | 1 comment

  Want to walk away from your mortgage? Think family values. A mortgage default affects college savings, retirement plans, and how the kids understand obligation. There's no shortage of advice: Everyone's weighing in, from banking groups to Stephen Colbert.

• ‘Mom’ or ‘Family CEO’? I’ll Stick With the Former

  By Jolie Solomon | Jan 29, 2010 | 3 comments

  Some experts urge us to be the Family CEO, applying MBA smarts to homefront finances. But with CEOs in the doghouse, maybe we need a new metaphor.

• Tuition Help: Who Should Pay for College Costs?

  By Jolie Solomon | Jan 22, 2010 | 3 comments

  Who should pay for college? It's a highly charged emotional issue. But it's a decision that parents can make, should make, and should communicate to their kids.

• Why Is Your 401(k) In Trouble? Because You Don’t Have Time To Read This Post

  By Jolie Solomon | Jan 13, 2010 | 1 comment

  We may be too multitasked to handle our own investments - but until the 401(k) system is overhauled, we don't have much of a choice.

• Does Your Family Live on Main Street or Wall Street?

  By Jolie Solomon | Nov 3, 2009 | 1 comment

  Yes, it’s a loaded question. Wall Street these days is wall-to-wall with Gordon Gekko, Dick Fuld, and UAW freeloaders. In other words: greed, avarice, incompetence, highly compensated incompetence, and other supposedly un-American activities. Main Street, of course, is none of these things. It may be harder to pinpoint the right adjectives. (Shuttered? Underfunded? Doomed?) But Main [...]

• Showdown in Chicago: When the Personal (Finance) Gets Political

  By Jolie Solomon | Oct 26, 2009 | 0 comments

  Is your Fidelity relationship manager a Ditto head? Does your accountant have a crush on Rachel Maddow? Will the BankAmerica call-center staffer vote Republican? These may not be top-of-mind questions for the average American citizen busy feeding her 401 (k) statements into a shredder. But protestors on the streets of Chicago today are demonstrating a [...]

• Organize Your Finances: You May Find Hidden Money

  By Jolie Solomon | Oct 22, 2009 | 0 comments

  If you’re one of those efficient, organized, motivated people with a pristine credit rating and no real skill set in procrastination, stop reading now. (And don’t expect me to go drinking with you, either.) This is for the rest of us. We who have piles of financial paper cluttering up the horizontal surfaces in our homes: [...]

• What “The Good Wife” Can Teach Us About the New Normal

  By Jolie Solomon | Oct 19, 2009 | 4 comments

  If the recession is over, we want to know, what do we call this? Economists have an answer: “The New Normal.” At first glance, it’s almost reassuring. New has that nice, shiny, fresh-from-the-package lilt. Normal is good, right? It’s not abnormal… Then you get it. The “New Normal” is ominous. It’s the “jobless recovery” — on a [...]

• OMG! Teens Are Not Spending!

  By Jolie Solomon | Oct 16, 2009 | 2 comments

  You know the economy’s still rotten when the sales clerks at Aeropostale are smiling at you, the Mom or Dad. Not long ago, a parent was persona non grata at stores like this. You could practically feel the force field at the entrance to Hollister. But the decline in teen spending is so alarming retailers, reports [...]

• Nesting: Proper Estate Planning Takes Time

  By Stacey Bradford | Sep 29, 2009 | 1 comment

  Here I am two days past my due date and my baby has yet to arrive. As I look over my official "to-do" list, I'm annoyed that I still haven't managed to complete every task. Despite my best efforts, my husband's life insurance and life insurance trust are still not in place.

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