February 20, 2017, 6:00am Business
If you’re like millions of homeowners, you recently received a familiar, innocuous-looking document from your lender. It’s called Form 1098, and it totes up how much interest you paid on your mortgage last year. Your lender is required by law to fill it out and send it to the IRS. Read story
February 19, 2017, 6:01am Business
Dear Mr. Berko: We wanted to buy 200 shares of MGE Energy, but our new stockbroker recommended that we buy 200 shares of Dominion Energy instead. Please give us your opinion. He also recommended that we invest $30,000 in U.S. government I bonds. Please give us your advice here, too. Read story
February 18, 2017, 6:01am Business
Dear Mr. Berko: I was looking up Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which has many products, especially in the eye care business. I wear contact lenses and have various eye problems for which my ophthalmologist has prescribed several medications made by Valeant. I just looked up the stock, and I could buy 100… Read story
February 17, 2017, 6:01am Business
President Donald Trump’s unpredictability, policy plans and political stumbles are scaring some investors. Read story
February 15, 2017, 6:02am Columnists
I was involved in an interesting exchange on Facebook recently. Read story
February 14, 2017, 6:01am Business
Recently, some of America’s most respected statesmen announced a different strategy to reducing carbon pollution — one based on incentives as opposed to penalties. Read story
February 13, 2017, 6:01am Business
If your real estate agent requires you to get a mortgage pre-approval from one specific lender as a condition of submitting an offer to buy a house — even if another lender already pre-approved you — would you think something is fishy? Read story
February 12, 2017, 6:00am Business
Dear Mr. Berko: In the late 1990s, my wife and I bought a Penn Treaty long-term care insurance policy to pay for future costs of nursing home care, which so far we haven’t needed. Our parents needed home health and nursing home care, and twice we borrowed money to pay… Read story
February 11, 2017, 5:46am Business
Dear Mr. Berko: I have $63,000 to invest in five high-yield stocks that you think have good long-term potential. Please don’t recommend closed-end funds or exchange-traded funds, which seem to be the only things, along with annuities and mutual funds, that stockbrokers suggest today. (Why is that?) Read story
February 10, 2017, 6:01am Business
A friend recently joked to me about how people sometimes resort to “alternative facts” when it comes to their money. Read story
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