Finances Archives

As I've been reading Emerson Eggerichs' book, naturally titled Love and Respect, it made me wonder about the implications for how husbands and...

God’s way of giving requires guts. It’s tough to give the way God calls us to. It can be frightening. It can even be lonely. Sometimes it means we...

Should we write to the companies and cancel old, unused credit cards?

What's so great about the "free" market and why is it worth preserving? And if regulation isn't the answer to Wall Street's excesses, what is?

If the SEC's allegations are true, then at the very least we are witnessing a real breakdown in ethics—people, ordinary men and women, failing to...

In order to live in financial freedom it's essential to avoid financing vehicles. Think it's impossible to cut out your car payment? It doesn't...

It's not just an old saying: When it comes to couples and money, opposites do attract.

Caesar has no power except that given to him by God. The fact that Caesar doesn’t know that doesn’t change things.

Some say that no one should have a credit card. But used responsibly, credit cards can work in your favor.

As a nation and as individuals, we’ve gotten to the point where we can hardly conceive of living life without access to an endless line of credit....

You'd like to make extra principal payments on your home mortgage each month, but you can't do that and invest for retirement. Which should have...

It turns out that the old adage is true - the best things in life are free. Here's how you can make your life rich without money.

How do we make sure the "help" we give to the poor doesn't end up amounting to nothing more than an empty gesture?

Dear Deborah: Is it best to invest in my IRA throughout the year or closer to the April 15 deadline? Should I always invest the maximum amount?

While the prosperity gospel is part of the problem, it is only a small expression of a much larger American ethos.