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Stay-at-home mom fights new credit card rule

Wed, 16 May 2012 06:45:56 EDT

After nearly five years managing her family's finances, Holly McCall, a 34-year old stay-at-home mother of two from Vienna, Va., never thought she would have trouble getting a credit card.

'We just want equal benefits'

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:31:50 EDT

From paying more for health insurance to being denied access to Social Security survivor benefits, many same-sex couples face financial difficulties because the federal government doesn't recognize gay marriage.

Bank of America offering up to $30K for short sales

Tue, 15 May 2012 18:37:33 EDT

Bank of America is offering some struggling homeowners payments of up to $30,000 if they sell their homes in a short sale and avoid ending up in foreclosure.

Park Avenue co-op sells for record $52.5 million

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:18:15 EDT

A recent sale in New York's famed 740 Park Avenue apartment building marked the highest price ever paid for a co-op in the city's history.

What the student loan rate hike means to you

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:01:01 EDT

For student borrowers, that pricey college education is going to cost a bit more next year.

'How can I buy Facebook stock?'

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:00 EDT

How and when can small investors buy Facebook stock? -- K.R., Green Valley, Ariz.

The real costs of starting a business

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:30:40 EDT

How can you beat the odds if you want to join the boomerpreneur boom and start your own company after 50? MONEY put that question to small-business experts and dozens of fiftysomething entrepreneurs for their best advice.

Starting a company from scratch

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:01:46 EDT

MBAs gone wild: Have B-schoolers gone too far?

Tue, 15 May 2012 10:51:50 EDT

Excessive drinking and other Mad Men-like behavior has become part of the culture of getting an MBA degree at schools like Harvard and Wharton, including, in some cases, sexual harassment.

Bank stocks that let you sleep well

Mon, 14 May 2012 05:32:27 EDT

This piece appears in the June issue of Money Magazine and was written before JPMorgan Chase revealed a surprise $2 billion trading loss. Data in the story has been updated to reflect stock prices as of May 11.

Dewey's decline and the rise of high-risk Big Law

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:20:39 EDT

The firm's fall from grace offers a look into how the once genteel, clubby world of law firms has taken on a hustling business culture of free agent partners.

Bye bye unemployment benefits

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:17:42 EDT

More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program.

How big is our big deficit?

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:19:54 EDT

What you need to know about the budget

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:12:08 EDT

Tax facts: Half really don't pay up?

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:52:50 EDT