Saturday, March 29, 2014

Home Prices Will Do This Over the Next Year

 

 
 as appearing in The Street
 
 
"It seems like Americans' love affair with real estate has returned," said Greg McBride, CFA, Bankrate.com's senior financial analyst. "But there are still some clear headwinds, including rising mortgage rates, stubbornly high unemployment and the relatively low U.S. household savings rate."

Friday, March 7, 2014

How This Olympian Dug Himself Out of $220,000 of Debt

 

  as appearing on TheStreet
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — As his race times improved, Jayson Jones was invited to run in more races, some of them bringing him abroad to Europe. The sprinter began amassing a larger portfolio as his winnings rose but was quickly spending more than he was earning.
Part of the problem was that Jones, whose talent would later enable him to run representing Belize in the 200-meter for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, received his winnings from European races solely in cash.