This is a guest post from Ray at Financial Highway. Earlier today, Ray shared the basics of life insurance. Insurance is an important part of financial planning — but understanding insurance and buying the right product can be tricky. From whole to term life, riders to convertibility clauses, how do you make sense of all ...

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This is a guest post from Frank Curmudgeon, who writes about bad money advice at his aptly-named blog, Bad Money Advice. You may have heard of target-date funds. In 2006 they were okayed as default investment options for 401k accounts, so if you said nothing about where you wanted your 401k money to go, you might ...

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The federal stimulus plan is giving states $5 billion to make leaky homes more energy efficient. But there's a shortage of qualified contractors to do the work, and trainers are scrambling to get more builders up to speed on weatherization. David Sommerstein reports.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Read more about Weatherizing Contractors In ...

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David Hobby at Strobist recently posted an interesting article describing how to use a blog to sell your house. Hobby and his wife have outgrown their townhouse in Columbia, Maryland, and are looking to move on. But typical real-estate brochures and marketing are often woefully inadequate. (I was just mocking a real-estate flyer last night, ...

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The federal government is making a deluge of data available on recovery.gov, a new Web site that tracks stimulus funds. It's an enormous task — a real-time, reliable accounting of what the government is doing with the money.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Read more about Follow The Money: Web Site Tracks Stimulus Dollars...

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