Statisticians may think the price of everything is staying low, but it doesn’t look that way to the ladies at the Friendship Cafe at Good Shepherd...

When it comes to mutual-fund paperwork, less seems to be more. That’s why the fund industry is rushing headlong into the “summary prospectus,“...

One of the nation’s biggest payday lenders will pay the state $85,000 to settle allegations it violated consumer-finance law in 119 instances. Regulators...

A year after a global freeze paralyzed the credit markets, interest rates remain at historic lows. So it’s a good time to borrow money for a home,...

Recession or no recession, the relentless extra costs of owning or even renting a home can be budget-wreckers. Sometimes it’s just not possible to...

Job loss or the fear of it has pushed more people to use their employer-sponsored health insurance before they lose it. Major health insurers have seen...