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- Financial reform, WLRN
- Financial reform, Mutual fund fees, Consumers win again
- Broward begins foreclosure mediation
- Financial reform is signed; How it affects you
- Loan mods: South Florida borrowers walk away
- Mortgage, Bank of America, New office to help homeowners
- Personal Finance Q&A: Should I pay off my mortgage early?
- Goldman Sachs SEC settlement, in context
- Denied: EBT cards didn't work, network fixed now
- Consumer prices in South Florida head up
- Financial reform and you
- Where to find help in tough times
- An even better way to check out a stockbroker
- Feeling that recovery yet?
- Personal Finance Q&A: Pros and cons of college savings plans
- Foreclosure: South Florida borrowers seriously delinquent
- LeBron, $90 mil, and the odds for Miami
- Your money: Skimp on vacation? No way
- Signed and sealed? Yvonne and her loan modification
- Loan modifications: Your reactions
- Loan modifications: In case you missed it...
- Your Money Q&A: How can I find reasonable health insurance?
- South Floriday economy may be doing better than you think
- South Floriday economy may be doing better than you think
- Send in your personal finance questions
- In case you missed it, student loan payment help
- Feeling Squeezed? Here's why
- Financial Reform, Mom, Pop and Apple Pie
- Get amnesty for Florida taxes
- Your Money Q&A: How do I evaluate a reverse mortgage?
- Send in your personal finance questions
- Would you pay to cut in line?
- Recession: Did you learn anything?
- Loan modifications: Dropouts exceed those helped
- Your Money Q&A: Can I take out dividends from my Roth tax-free?
- Foreclosures: Chase bankers, 12-hour days
- NACA, loan modifications: Update on South Florida event
- Foreclosure: How to get mediation
- Courts overwhelmed with foreclosures
- NACA, loan modifications, Save the Dream Tour returns to South Florida
- Your Money Q&A: How do I pay self-employment taxes now that I'm a "consultant"?
- Mortgage fraud arrests
- Financial reform debate and South Florida
- Foreclosures: The bomb is still exploding in the courts
- Florida, economy, a bit better
- Free credit scores on your iPhone
- Your Money Q&A: The CEO lied, can shareholders collect the fine?
- Outrage at bank overdraft fees
- Driving car debt down
- Sunday's column on bank overdrafts
- Your money Q&A
- Bank Overdrafts: New rules, old problems
- Watch out for oil spill stock schemes
- Hey, you, let go of that paper (check)
- Brokerage expanding in South Florida
- Consumer confidence falls
- How does your credit card compare?
- No more Madoff: Outsmart invesment fraud, free seminar
- Loan modifications: Wells Fargo/Wachovia wants borrowers to come to Miami Beach workshop
- Be careful about crafting financial reform, Domino says
- Loan modifications: Slowdown in starts, but why?
- Free credit scores!
- More than 15,000 Florida charities at risk of losing tax-exempt status
- Robbed? When is a safe-deposit box not so safe
- Searching for stability in unstable markets
- Mortgages: New Help coming for South Florida's troubled homeowners
- Loan modifications: South Florida borrower finally gets one
- Online banking beats in-person for customer satisfaction
- Pump up your Social Security benefits
- Teens: Here's how to find a summer job
- What are you doing about your credit card debt?
- Foreclosure, mortgages: Bring your problems to this forum
- Retirement: Do the numbers
- IRS open house
- Do you like your bank? If not, you've got plenty of company
- Markets: What will stocks return this year?
- Foreclosure: Tell it to the AG
- Foreclosure fraud Investigation
- Risk: The list
- Easy way to pay down debt
- Florida consumer confidence rises: First rebate, then celebrate
- Deluded? Why don't people recognize that stocks went up?
- Tax season tally
- My wished-for financial reforms
- Goldman, let's talk
- Condos: In case you missed it
- SEC: Goldman fraud
- Face it, it's April 15
- Loan modifications: Progress, but not keeping pace with foreclosure crisis
- Tax Day: Here's your extension form
- More loan modification help in Miami
- Talking taxes
- Loan modifications: Round-the-clock help returns to South Florida
- Tax Day: One third of Florida returns to go
- Tax Day: Food!
- Taxes: South Florida Post Offices open late
- Wachovia: We're online again
- Dow 11,000 and then some
- Marketplace Money: Listen on Saturday
- Troubles grow for Morgan Keegan
- Interest rates rising will hurt bonds
- Loan modifications: Yvonne still waits
- Gambling, taxes and loan modifications
- Tax help Saturday
- Here's how Making Home Affordable will work
- Loan modifications: Bank of America cuts principal
- Tax Q&A: Can I still deduct sales taxes?
- Tax Q&A: I'm unemployed. Can I drain my retirement accounts?
- Tax and credit cards: Palm Beachers aren't so delinquent
- Tax and credit cards: Use refund to catch up
- Loan modifications: Yvonne's still waiting
- Loan modifications: More than 7,000 get new deal
- Three loan modifications, now...
- Retirement: Slim to none for almost half of workers
- Loan modifications: Do you really want one?
- Tax Q&A: Second job, what about withholding?
- Credit reports: Employers are going to look, be ready
- Investing: Bull market is one year old tomorrow
- Credit card rates: Fed isn't helping end high rates
- Bush, Babar, Borat: Financial reform Video
- If you're unemployed, there are tax breaks
- College costs: Teenagers say they'll pay
- A primer on how to make overseas investing work for you
- Mortgage modification mash up
- This is going on all weekend, Mortgage Help
- Billboard on 95
- Mortgage help for unemployed and more
- Tax Q&A: Appliance rebates in April, Roth IRAs and losses
- New card rules won't protect you from overdrafts online
- Cancelled: Your Money Bus Tour
- Credit card reform: New fees, higher rates
- Florida foreclosures soar
- More foreclosure help
- Loan modifications: Latest numbers
- Foreclosure help in Palm Beach this week
- Tax Q&A: Will the Roth IRA Income Limit Change Again Next Year?
- Looking for....some good reviews
- Your money and love: The best tool, good questions
- Love & money quiz
- IRS: Weekend hours and now appointments
- Mutual Funds: International's hot
- Mortgages: Hand over the keys?
- Tax Q&A: Taking care of parents
- Mortgages: Drowning in the underwater debate
- Tax Q&A: No W2, Haiti relief
- More free money help
- Money Expo in West Palm
- Hello DC: Where's financial reform now?
- Tell me your love and money stories
- Great investing book, but will online money management catch on?
- Haiti: Text messages add up
- Super Bowl: Who needs the calculator?
- Tax Question (and answer) Tuesday
- Fix the financial crisis by spreading the responsibility
- Tax season is on, IRS open weekends
- GDP looking good
- Income Investing
- Loan modifications: Streamlined application process to begin June1
- Not so free W2s from H&R Block
- Tax Q&A: What's the deduction?
- Consumer confidence in Florida jumps
- Talking mortgages, investments and the financial crisis
- Haiti tax breaks and texts
- Haiti donations deductible now
- Tax: Time to file is now.
- Madoff victims in South Florida want more
- What really caused the financial crisis
- Madoff: Suit against bank continues
- Mutual fund manager of the decade: Berkowitz
- Loan Modifications: Escaping from the battle
- Tax time: And now, the scams
- Tip of the day on college financial aid
- The first trading day
- Dow up almost 19 percent for 2009
- The Big Lie of personal finance
- What your home is really worth now
- Consumer confidence in Florida lags
- Yacktman, personally
- Start the decade with -- a raise !
- Hold on to your wallet, taxes will change
- In case you mssed it....
- Update: Marketplace Money
- Loan modifications: Fewer than estimated will qualify
- Looking ahead
- Ho, ho, hold down those credit card rates
- Loan Modifications: A testy meeting at the White House
- Your stories of loan modifications that don't happen
- The housing crisis: Homeownership is falling, but...
- Is it right to walk away from a mortgage you can't afford?
- Loan modifications: Few become permanent
- Two-way taxes
- Banks offer more rewards
- Ask yourself
- Digging out from under a mountain of debt
- We want your stories! Get a free Money Makeover, share your investments and tell us about converting your IRA
- Timing and debt
- Loan modifications: Treasury says it put heat on lenders
- Here's how you don't want to damage your credit score
- Did your portfolio go anywhere in the last ten years
- Trust your investment advisor? Make the rules clear
- Consumers not in a bright mood
- Cool tool for troubling news
- The money flows again...toward retirement
- What If
- Florida leads the nation in foreclosures
- Compare your debts to this list
- Inflation is such a distant thought
- Get fit, financially
- Money makeovers are hot
- Consumers need a protection agency
- I'm looking for people and here are answers for you
- The loan modification crush, by the numbers
- Loan Modifications: Logjam continues
- Rothstein: Did investors see the red flags waving?
- President signs homebuyer tax credit into law
- IRS refund: It really is your money, come and get it
- Rothstein, more
- Exploding toasters and financial products
- Scott Rothstein files
- Debt collectors: McCollum takes aim
- Watch for vote this week on tax credit for home buyers
- Now there's Cash For.......Candy
- Homebuyer tax credit extension likely
- Bank stocks: Ignoring failures and roaring ahead
- TV: Here's my latest appearance
- Go ahead, cut Wall Street's pay.
- Unretirement
- Watch me
- Cost of going to college rises -- again
- Homebuyers tax credit may be extended
- A new place for cash with good yields
- Inflation's gone and it's not all bad.
- Mortgage rates: Going which way?
- Don't punch a hole in your 401(k)
- Spend less, it's normal
- The recession is over? It is?
- Here's today's story on loan modifications
- Borrower's Remorse
- LIVE CHAT: Your Money Helpline
- Options riches? Not easy.
- You got questions, we have answers
- Monday Laundry: Happy Financial Planning week, call our hotline and more
- Financial Helpline next week
- Consumer confidence takes a surprising jump
- Online tools for your finances
- Monday Laundry: Hope you don't win this one
- Credit cards: Congress is coming after you again
- Barney Frank aims at the Fed
- Chase, Bank of America change overdraft policies
- Huge, hidden fees
- Feeling squeezed? It's because your incomes has gone nowhere
- Monday Laundry
- Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
- It's real, prices are falling
- A year after the meltdown...
- Twice as many need people head to credit counseling
- Financial illiteracy is all too common
- Monday Laundry: Rate advisors, Chase getting heat, Cobra foul-up
- New video, investment fraud
- Good luck Home Buyers. You'll need it
- Donation dropped, along with Bienes name
- Monday Laundry on Tuesday
- You can complain, but they won't tell
- Monday Laundry: First-time homebuyers, shaky banks, scams, students and more
- Limbaugh, take three
- Limbaugh, continued
- The gloom about the economy is lifting
- The news isn't going to be pretty
- Scams, schemes, frauds and such
- The salary outlook for 2010
- Monday Laundry: Mortgage Modification Fright
- Will you trust Wall Street again?
- Daily down, down, down
- On TV tonight
- Can South Floridians unlock the value in their homes?
- Monday's Laundry: Mortgages on your mind
- Time for a (tax) holiday
- Take this loan, please
- Loan modifications not happening
- Portfolio repair, it's not too late
- Investment fraud: Guess who's a victim
- Stirring the pot: Should the SEC put a lid on pay?
- Why is it so hard to find a financial adviser (and I didn't even say a good one)?
- A laundry list of readers questions.
- Tax help for school costs
- Credit card reform derailed
- Minimum Wage law loopholes
- Tune in
- One worry I don't have
- Money makeover brings strong reaction
- Messages to Madoff
- Credit cards: Mine's the worst. It belongs in...
- Credit cards punish us
- We don't want you to know this but....
- Better investor protection, but not in the U.S.
- Suit says Boca Raton-based IBM credit union was negligent
- My recent stories
- Don't do this
- He deserved better
- The sinking value of home ownership
- Be careful about CDs and sales pitches for high rates
- Set it and forget it
- Months and months of pay cuts
- Tax break for homeowners in distress
- Will Obama's financial reform plan do any good?
- Loan modificatioons are a hot topic
- It's not easy to change the terms of your mortgage
- College Debts get lighter
- Executive Pay is not capped, cut, reigned in
- Big medical bills to come
- In the mortgage mess, fraud was all over the place
- Banks and your cash
- Bank buyouts ahead?
- Floridians feeling more confident about the economy
- South Florida charities hit hard by Madoff, Bienes downfall
- Can your finances beat back trouble?
- Love that new credit card bill
- Recession Lessons
- Goodbye Inflation
- And the next industry under investigation....Debt Settlement
- Stress test for your finances: some answers
- Are your finances really stressed out? Take this test
- Breaking the debt habit
- Don't rush to refinance your mortgage
- Rally was real in April, Can May be as good?
- Term life insurance, what's up?
- Teens: Summer Jobs are hard to find
- Confidence is on the rise
- Loan modifications, what you need to know
- Credit Cards: Are you kidding?
- Avoid Foreclosure. Help available today
- Timely Advice: Avoid Mortgage Fraud
- Free Mortgage Help for South Florida borrowers in trouble
- Hate your credit card? Beginning to like the economy?
- Paycheck: Perking Up
- Watch your paycheck, Closely!
- Tax, get help here
- Credit cards, we don't know the terms
- Taxes: The latest
- Book Review: The Retirement Challenge
- Financial meltdown: Picture this
- Obama, Financial Advisor-in-Chief
- The credit card industry vs. the rest of us
- Foreclosure: Are you about to fall?
- Foreclosure: Coping in Tough Times: Help with mortgages
- Job-Hunters, here's where to look
- What are you looking for?
- Economy: Recovery in Sight?
- Madoff boat, no bull
- Housing Crisis: Somebody fix this
- Foreclosure and renters, some help
- Consumer Confidence ticks up
- Housing Crisis: Tell me your solution
- Solve the Housing Crisis: Change Mortgages
- How can we juice up the housing market?
- Awards: Good News
- Fraud, Morgan Stanley and Investment advice
- Coping in tough times: Tax breaks you can use now
- Investment fraud: Scams, schemes and me
- Interest rates: Cheap mortgages, rush to refinance?
- Tax: Free Tax Help in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade this weekend
- Coping in tough times: Mortgages, can they be changed?
- Madoff: Who deserved the blame?
- Another Victim Speaks
- Speak Up
- Another Victim's Voice
- Coping in Tough Times: How to get a lower mortgage payment
- Strong Reacion to Madoff Story
- Let the Lenders Mow the Lawns
- Coping in tough times: CD rates low but inflation lower
- Managed Bankruptcy? Mike Jackson on Auto Bailouts
- Tax Cut for Families under $50,000
- Hey Wayne, I was right
- UBS: Bailouts and tax evasion
- Florida's Un-Sunny Outlook
- Coping in tough times: Save on Car Buying
- Should You Bet on Bank Stocks?
- Madoff Trustee: No Stock was Ever Bought
- Coping in tough times: Homebuyers tax break
- Here's Something for Students in Stimulus Bill
- Post-Madoff Rules for Investor Self-Protection
- Are you a Madoff victim?
- Coping in tough times: I lost my job. What about my 401(k)?
- Homebuyers, A Big Break
- Coping in Tough Times: Filing a Tax Return Can Produce a Windfall For the Working Poor
- Free Tax Filing, How to Find Help
- Tax Help
- And when your W2 Comes....
- Saturday, IRS offices open
- Coping in Tough Times: Is my Bank CD safe?
- From my colleague Doreen Hemlock, The World Slows Down
- What you need to get a new mortgage
- Which President is Good for Stocks?
- Money Smarts for the 30s
- Some good ideas on handling credit cards
- Coping in Tough Times: Job or School?
- Coping: How does that new First-Time Home Buyers Tax Credit Work?
- Coping in Tough Times: Is my brokerage account insured?
- Inflation, What's that?
- Coping in Tough Times: Selling a House
- Coping in Tough Times: Credit Card Companies Are Tough On Customers
- Coping in Tough Times: Your Questions
- Coping in Tough Times: Trouble Payng Taxes
- Coping In Tough Times: Worthless Stock is, well, worthless
- Coping in Tough Times: Buy a House or Not?
- Joblessness Getting Worse
- Coping in Tough Times: Buy a house now?
- Coping in Tough Times : Stretching Your Paycheck
- This is a Shock: Stocks are Stable
- Bankruptcy Is Not Always The Way Out
- It's Brighter, In The Long Run
- Stocks at Year-End/New Year
- Year-end tax planning? Here's how gains and losses work
- Bernard Madoff, some questions
- Congress Changes Retirement Rules
- How are your funds doing?
- On TV Tonight
- Homebuyers, Don't Give Up
- Mortgage rates fall
- Mortgage rates
- The recession: When will it end?
- Q & A: Should I buy a house?
- No, this is not the next Great Depression
- Q&A: Is your annuity safe?
- You should know
- Q&A: When should I stop saving for retirement?
- Help with your personal finance questions, get it here
- Riding out the Storm on the Nightly Business Report
- Consumer confidence falls
- Hey Wayne, here's what Obama has proposed
- Found money! Get yours!
- Money fears: A run on the bank
- Free Financial Advice
- Our debts = Our future
- Bail out homeowners
- The Dow drops 8 percent today. Huh?
- Market roars ahead;New Record?
- Relief Rally
- Thanks and an idea about helping people to stay in their homes
- Live chat: Your Money Helpline
- Your Money Helpline: We'll be having a live chat right here today
- Need Help? Tomorrow, We Have It For You
- Here's the Bailout Bill
- The Bailout Bill: What's in it for you?
- One option for getting us out of this finanical meltdown
- There is no tax break extension without a bailout bill
- Stock Market Meltdown
- Bailout Bill: A piece of good news for troubled homeowners
- Washington Mutual becomes the biggest bank ever to fail
- This bailout is not aimed at homeowners
- After AIG takeover, are insurance policies, annuities still good?
- Long-term investors, it pays to wait out the storm
- Have the Feds really stopped short-selling?
- The bailout looks good for investors, but it's early innings
- Is the Dow safe now?
- Wall Street's crazy week: Relief has arrived
- More AIG problems in plain sight
- Who gets hurt in AIG bailout?
- A call for Fannie and Freddie's holders
- Rates have declined sharply
- The credit crunch, by the numbers
- Did you see those rates?
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- You'll pay more.....
- We love tourists. And they're still coming
- Retirement, taxes and Roths
- Not covered
- The story behind the story on uninsureds
- It's not the election....
- More on IndyMac
- IndyMac borrowers get a do over
- More on the auction-rate securities mess
- Students and the credit crunch; They use their credit cards for what?
- Are you falling farther behind?
- If you're in the market for a new laptop
- Hello, Inflation.
- You may be able to get your money back
- First-time Homebuyers, We need you. News about a tax break
- Foreclosures and the spin
- It's a cycle
- Did the bank failures get you?
- I have a few things to do
- More mileage breaks
- Credit scores may have a credibility problem
- Will being thrifty last?
- Got your rebate?
- Foreclosures, let's not be Number One
- Hurricane Season tip
- Gimme a policy, a proposal, something...
- Believe it or not, credit cards can grow even less consumer-friendly
- Are you deluded?
- Why is there so much debt?
- How I survived my first recession
- Florida's consumer confidence is now the lowest on record
- One in Four Get a No
- Fighting with your credit card company isn't easy
- I'm tired of credit cards behaving badly
- Audit the IRS
- Debit Cards for Everything
- A lower outlook
- See Me on TV
- Do-It-Yourself Credit Monitoring
- Blog reading that's on the money
- How to make it through this economy: DNAYG
- Advisors may have to open up more
- Free credit scores and credit monitoring
- Strategies: How do you pick?
- Investing: Think about what's going right....
- Investing? Consider the world beyond the U.S.
- Is there a way you can profit because gasoline is so expensive?
- Is it time for a sunny forecast yet?
- What's legit and what's not
- Stimulus Snafu
- Our paychecks could use a little inflation
- DOW is surging, but Inflation is a real issue
- Got your rebate yet?
- How many flags would your next investment get?
- Where's my rebate?
- A bad bet on inflation
- Cut your costs...now
- "But this never happened before": The auction-rate security mess
- First the mortgage blew up, now the explanation does too
- Recession? It's the wrong question
- They're rebates. You don't have to pay them back!
- From the nation's Capitol to your bank account - rebates coming
- Money on your mind
- Which way the money flows
- How'd they rob her?
- 2008 and stocks? Not so good so far
- 364 days til your next return is due
- My mission
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