With less than two weeks remaining in 2008 you still have time to make some last minute tax moves that that could benefit you financially.  These include:
-  Applying losses in the market to offset up to $3,000 of ordinary income.  (This applies to taxable accounts, not to retirement accounts).
-  First-home buyers who purchased a house after […]

Rates Approach Record Lows Since the Fed announced a plan to purchase $500 billion of mortgage-backed securities on November 25, mortgage rates have moved progressively lower, and the trend continued this week. Conforming fixed-rate mortgage rates dropped to levels last seen in 2003. Weak Retail Sales data and low inflation figures released during the week […]

  
Low Mortgage Rates Mortgage rates moved even lower this week, helped by economic weakness and recent actions by the Fed and the Treasury. Conforming fixed-rate mortgage rates dropped to levels last seen in 2003. According to Freddie Mac, the weekly decline in rates was the largest since 1981, over its Wednesday to Wednesday measurement period. […]

Best Cities to Live, Work and Play
These ten great places will only get better.
From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, July 2008

Our approach this year to picking the ten best cities in which to live and work was simple: Look for places with strong economies and abundant jobs, then demand reasonable living costs and plenty of fun […]