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By Christian Hudspeth

Most college graduates will tell you it's hard enough to complete four (or more) long years of packaged noodles, 10-page papers and excruciating final exams.

Things often get harder for new graduates after school's over, especially when it comes to finding a job. The unemployment rate...

The credit card bill.

Whether you love it or hate it, if you've got a card -- and 2010 Census Bureau projections estimate that 181 million Americans do -- you likely see one in your mail or inbox every month.

Some card holders won't feel the stinging...

Saving for retirement can be a sore subject for Americans approaching their golden years.

With so much gloom-and-doom surrounding Social Security -- a 2011 report from the Social Secuirty Board of Trustees said Social Security will be insolvent by 2017 -- a self-funded retirement is more of a...

During his NFL playing days, Warren Sapp made headlines for his relentless pursuit of quarterbacks, his colorful interviews and his on-field antics. But in April 2012, Sapp made news of a different type when he filed for bankruptcy.

According to the filing, Sapp owes more than $6.7 million to creditors,...

A higher credit score means more money in your pocket. It's as simple as that.

A typical credit card for someone with poor credit may have an interest rate of 20 percent. If you carry a balance of $5,000 on that card and make payments of $150 each month, you'll...

Retirement is supposed to be "the golden years," but make a few tax-planning mistakes along the way and your nest egg can become a golden egg for the government.

Unfortunately, taxes don't get less complicated when you retire. In fact, they get more baffling. Adding to...

Have you ever received an email or phone call promising the investment opportunity of a lifetime, if you'd only be so kind as to share your bank account information and social security number? If so, then you were a potential victim of financial fraud, a crime that comes in many...

It's probably the most important retirement question you can ask. But, unfortunately for you and for financial advisers, there's no right way to answer it. How should I allocate my assets?

Your decision may mean the difference between relaxing on that yacht or chasing the mailman for your social security...

Did your paternal grandfather live to 97 and great aunt on your mother's side hit 93?

While you may be delighted with your wonderful genes, you should also be concerned about something that every retiree and pre-retiree worries about constantly as they grow older: outliving your retirement nest-egg.

So...

You've no doubt heard by now that the ongoing NBA lockout has taken a sharp turn for the worse. First, the pre-season was cancelled. Next, we lost the first two weeks of regular season games.

Then on Monday, the NBA Players Association rejected the NBA owners' latest deal...

And...

The U.S. Department of Energy released their 2011 yearly estimates of heating costs around the country, and not surprisingly, the numbers were higher than years past.

Those who heat their homes with natural gas can expect to spend an average of 3 percent (or $19) more this winter. Households using...

With another tough winter looming in the future, many aging baby boomers are dreaming of the day that they can pull up roots and spend their retirement years in a cheerier place. For many, that means Florida or Arizona. But for a growing number of retirees, the net is being...

Wall Street has a long history of con artists and crooks who bend and break the rules to benefit themselves. This usually leaves regulators scrambling to close the loopholes and specify grey areas in their regulations in order to prevent copycat con men.

There are only a few things...

Bankruptcy advocates would like you to believe that simply filing for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy is the miracle solution to all of your debt problems.

Indeed, the way bankruptcy is sometimes portrayed, you'd think an attorney would just fly in through your front door...

Some of the world's biggest companies came from the most humble of beginnings. Here are five major corporations who've each starred in their own rags-to-riches story.

1. Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG)
"On Sept. 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, Calif. The door came with a...

With unemployment at 9.1 percent in the United States, millions of people across the nation are still struggling to find a job.

While some states have moved forward and even experienced the beginning of an economic recovery, the residents of these 10 states are still dealing with uncharacteristically...

While the economy as a whole has been slowly growing, many industries are still shaking off the effects of the recession. The only constant is that no single industry has been completely safe from job cuts.

In July 2011 alone, several multi-million dollar corporations announced massive...

Benjamin Franklin once proposed that elected officials not be paid for their service to the nation -- a proposal that was quickly struck down by other representatives.

However, it must be said that during the recent recession, members of Congress did conform somewhat to the idea of "austerity"...

By the year 2018, the manufacturing industry will lose 1.2 million more jobs, the mining and oil/gas extraction industry will lose another 104,000 jobs and even the utility companies will see 59,000 job losses according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

As any nation's economy grows...

It wasn't that long ago, about 20 years, in fact, that the personal computer was considered a glorified Etch A Sketch. People didn't know what it was or what to do with it.

They certainly couldn't imagine that it would evolve to be the size of a deck of cards,...