Personal Finance

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Underwater Mortgage Insurance, Because Negative Equity is Becoming Widespread

Over 20% of all homeowners with a mortgage still owe more money in their mortgage than their homes...

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$3.6 Billion Lost to Fraud is IRS’s Improvement from the Year before

For tax year 2011, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued $3.6 billion in potentially fraudulent refunds.

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Divergence is Another Word for Opportunity

When I look at the strong gains in the domestic equity market over the past year, I tend...

Controlling the No Control Frustration

Controlling the No Control Frustration If you feel frustrated, perplexed and downright pissed off about the shenanigans going...

The Fed is out of Control

“The establishment of Central Banking removes the checks of bank credit expansion, and puts the inflationary engine into...

‘The Seven Secrets of Successful Speculation’

“Speculation” has an image problem. Index fund pioneer John Bogle recently wrote a book on “The Clash of...

Increase Your Bank Account by Having More Sex

I think everyone knows that when it comes to money and sex, you can never have too much.

Whom Would You Trust with Your Savings: Your Grandfather or Big Brother?

Today's Skousen CAFÉ features a guest column from investment writer Dennis Miller, while I am attending and speaking...

Why Are Stock Prices so Volatile?

At the invitation of Jan Fijor, a publisher of free-market books in Warsaw, Poland, I just completed writing...

Is the Stock Market about to Roll Over?

Stock analyst Eric Parnell recently wrote a column in Seeking Alpha, “Another Troubling Sign for Stocks.” He wrote,...