Real estate professionals love a lemon. That’s what many brokers call a less-than-perfect house whose flaws would be inexpensive to fix or relatively easy to live with, giving the lucky buyer the ch...

Five moves to make now No one knows how long the economic downturn will last. No one even knows for sure whether we are in an actual recession (defined as two consecutive quarters or more of a decl...

  One of portfolio manager Ron Baron's goals is to find stocks that could double in price within four to five years. To accomplish this, he looks for companies that face little competition bec...

  Other things being equal, we'd all like it if the companies we invested in acted responsibly and progressively -- for example, by developing "green" environmental practices and treating empl...

How to protect yourself and your family Over the course of his 30-year career, author and consultant Gerald Celente has demonstrated an uncanny ability to forecast the “Next Big Thing” in econo...

  Over the past few years, I spent thousands of hours with legendary Nebraskan investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. While I was writing his biograp...

Over the past few years, I spent thousands of hours with legendary Nebraskan investor Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. While I was writing his biography, he gav...

And ride out the rough times at work Nearly two million US jobs have been lost in the past year as the nation slides deeper into a recession. Millions more layoffs are likely. In an economy this b...

More and more Americans are getting calls from debt collectors -- for unpaid medical bills, mortgages, car loans, credit card bills, etc. In fact, one out of seven American families has a debt in coll...

Many financial advisers have soured on most types of bonds and bond funds because of low yields and forecasts of a recession. High-quality municipal bonds and bond funds are the exception. “Munis”...