There's good news and bad news on the credit reporting and scoring front. Renters could soon see their rental payment history affect their credit…

Scott is a working actor in LA. In 2010, he made about $60K from acting. After shooting a commercial, a client complained that they had to spend …

A year ago most of the new federal credit card rules went into effect. The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 was…

A former colleague once defined personal finance as getting out of credit card debt. Exaggerated? Yes, but he wasn't far off (although in the…

The list of scams seems endless. Pump-and-dump swindles. Deceptive charities. Ponzi schemes. Foreign lotteries. Foreclosure scams. Telemarketing…

Our guest blogger is Meir Statman, finance professor at Santa Clara University. He's a leading light in the field of behavioral finance and those…

I'm the producer for Getting Personal, so I talk to a LOT of people every week about all sorts of things: saving money, improving their credit…

We get many emails from people pouring money into their mortgage and savings as much as they can. Their goal is to retire early. It's financial…

Question: Eric, a professor and musician in Decorah, Iowa, wonders about the choice he made with his 529 college savings plan. He has two childre…

Over the past three decades, investing in equity indexes moved from the margins of Wall Street to a mainstay investment on Main Street. The…