| Personal Finance Headlines |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Estate Planning: Trusts
(The Motley Fool)
|
| The Motley Fool - Trusts were first used in medieval England, and they have evolved to serve many purposes in modern law. The essential attribute of a trust is that it divides ownership of property into two pieces. One person, the trustee, holds the legal aspects of ownership and may control and take responsibility for the property. Another person, the beneficiary, holds the sole right to enjoyment of the property. -- read full article |
| Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:14:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
| Estate Planning: Wills
(The Motley Fool)
|
| The Motley Fool - Since at least the time of the Roman Empire, wills have been used to ensure the orderly transfer of property from generation to generation. While the popular image of making a will often involves someone in a grave situation -- on the eve of battle, perhaps, or suffering from a terminal illness -- wills can be drawn up at any time, and they do provide a good way for people to state their wishes regarding who should receive their property after their death. -- read full article |
| Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:15:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
| O'Neill: No more mortgages without down payment
(AP)
|
| AP - President Bush's first treasury secretary says Congress should scrap plans for a new economic stimulus package and instead require that no future home mortgage be awarded without a 20 percent down payment. -- read full article |
| Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:39:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
|
|
| GMAC cleared to join Fed commercial paper plan
(Reuters)
|
| Reuters - GMAC LLC, the auto and mortgage finance company, on Tuesday said it had been approved to use the commercial paper funding facility created earlier this month by the U.S. Federal Reserve with the aim of easing pressure on the corporate credit market. -- read full article |
| Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:49:42 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
|
|
| Election 2008: Obama on the Economic Issues
(BusinessWeek Online)
|
| BusinessWeek Online - -- Income Taxes: Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) would hold most income tax rates steady, making permanent the Bush tax cuts for the vast majority of individual taxpayers. With those cuts scheduled to expire in 2011, he would allow rates for households making more than $250,000 (or individuals making more than roughly $200,000) to return to earlier levels. Earners who now pay today's maximum 35% rate would see their top marginal rate go back to the 36.9% in effect in the Clinton years, for example. -- read full article |
| Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:08:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
|
|
|
|
| Treasury mulls insurer aid program: sources
(Reuters)
|
| Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department is studying how it could give relief to insurance companies under a $700 billion financial services rescue package, two sources familiar with the deliberations said on Friday.
-- read full article |
| Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:41:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
| Treasury mulls insurer aid program: sources
(Reuters)
|
| Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department is closely studying how it could give relief to bond and mortgage insurance companies under a $700 billion financial services rescue package, two sources familiar with the deliberations said on Friday.
-- read full article |
| Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:50:51 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
| Meltdown 101: Who owns my mortgage?
(AP)
|
| AP - When you sit at your kitchen table and write your monthly mortgage check, your signature may be the first stop on a journey that takes your money to the other side of the world. -- read full article |
| Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:45:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Personal Finance News |
|
| More Personal Finance Headlines Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 Next |