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We were driving north on the interstate about an hour from the city in the new Suzuki SX4 Sport sedan. I noticed we were going quite fast. We sailed past the BMW 650i, a Dodge Viper, a Maserati Quattroporte and even the new, beautiful Bentley Continental GT Speed with a fabulous W12 twin turbo engine.

As hard times get harder, job losses mount, and banks get stingier with loans, chances are getting better are that a family member may ask you for financial help. Experts often warn about the dangers of lending money to family members and usually recommend treating any money given as a loan.As hard times get harder, job losses mount, and banks get stingier with loans, chances are getting better are that a family member may ask you for financial help. Experts often warn about the dangers of lending money to family members and usually recommend treating any money given as a loan.

Want to make sure your holiday gift arrives by Christmas Eve? If you’re shopping on the Internet instead of at the mall, make sure you check the vendor’s shipping deadlines.

You have practiced medicine for your entire career. Your spouse and children rely on you, and you have numerous financial obligations both at home and at the office.

When so-called 529 college-savings plans first appeared on the scene, most were the kind of plan where depositors put in after-tax money, invested it in mutual funds or other investments, then took the money out tax-free to pay for college.

Interview with David Kibbe MD, on EHRs and physician adoption of Electronic heath record systems.

When banks stopped lending money to anyone with a pulse, they stopped lending money to anyone at all, even those with gilt-edged credit ratings. Now that federal government has moved in to unlock the mortgage vaults, loans are easier to come by, but many of those who are self-employed are still out in the cold.

There are several little-known but completely legal things you can do to reduce your tax burden, "harvest tax losses," and take best advantage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

In a free-market economy, everything is connected to everything else. Just like higher gas prices affect your wallet in ways large and small, the current credit crisis has far-reaching implications for your life and your investment strategy, whether or not you’re in the market for a new home or a new car.

If patients are turning to their physicians for counseling on medical finances, they may be cut short by the response�or lack thereof.

Charles Schwab Corp. is rolling out a new credit card with some nifty features that the financial services company hopes will help it capture a chunk of the country’s multibillion-dollar credit-card business.

Just as charts can reflect the activity of a stock—its volatility and price movements—they are also useful tools for tracking the effects of economic instability on the stock market. The major indexes, the Dow, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ, reflect activity in various market sectors and segments of our economy. When there is turmoil, it is evident in the daily index charts.

If you’re the parent of a high school senior, you and your college-bound child have probably spent a lot of time lately sifting through college catalogs, stressing over SATs, and perhaps actually visiting come colleges.

Surveys that reveal a crisis in the healthcare system may not be news, but a recent poll by the Physicians' Foundation underscores just how bad the future of primary care medicine could be.

We may be in a whole new world. Shorting stock has been a dirty word. Yet, that tactic is gaining new respect. That is because the only people that are making money in this market have largely been shorting it.

If the stock market has you lying awake at night, you’re investing too much emotional energy in it.

A recent report from Manhattan Research, �U.S. Physician Market Trends,� indicates that approximately 30 million consumers have connected with their doctor online, and an additional 70 million want to do so.

Several years ago, you ordered a holiday gift for your Aunt Martha from a catalog, and you’re still getting that catalog, even though you’ve never ordered from it again and probably never will.

We are excited to tell you about the refined 2009 Mitsubishi Outlander. Everyone could use a vehicle of this size and type. Yes, even you. It’s chock-full of luxuries. Our excitement is genuine; this sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a deep thrill.

Back when the price of gas was topping $4 a gallon, drivers hunting down bargains were willing to drive some distance to save a few cents a gallon.

Chicken Little keeps waiting for the sky to fall. In this pessimistic frame of mind, he never thinks about taking opportunities that arise while he is waiting for the sky to fall. (Maybe the sky won’t fall.)

You may not be willing to take a ride on the stock market roller coaster, but the current market turmoil gives you an excellent chance to buy some holiday gifts at a steep discount, especially for the youngsters on your gift list.

For convenient gift giving, it’s hard to beat a gift card. No worries about finding just the right gift, the right fit, or the right color. Some critics say, however, that gift cards are actually free money for the retail stores, since many of them are never used.

On the day 12 years ago when Alan Greenspan made his famous "irrational exuberance" remark, the stock market averages were surprisingly close to where they are today: the Dow was just under 6,500, and the S&P was at 744. While today’s markets are certainly irrational, though, some Wall Street analysts are calling it irrational despair.

The demographics of the United States are shifting rapidly. According to the Census Bureau, minorities currently constitute approximately 32% of the U.S. population.

When the 111th Congress is sworn in on January 3, at least 14 doctors will be included: 12 in the House of Representatives and 2 in the Senate.

Faced with soaring costs for imaging scans like MRIs, health insurance companies are turning to radiology benefits managers, or RBMs, to try to get a handle on these expenses.

With the election now behind us and a new administration taking office in a few short weeks, now is the time to look at what the political and economic landscape might look like under President Obama and a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.

A group of unions is accusing the pharmacy benefits management (PBM) unit of CVS Caremark of trying to push doctors into prescribing a costly drug for diabetes patients.

A year ago, if someone told you that their objective was just to retain their capital without any return, you would have thought they were crazy. Today, that approach sounds pretty good.