Budgeting can be a source of tension among couples, especially when each partner has different ideas about where the money should go. My husband had been begging me for years to get serious about building a budget. So after the New Year, ...
A galaxy of new web tools and games have popped up that are designed to teach children about "financial literacy"—the buzzword for the stuff you are supposed to know to stay out of debt and save enough for retirement.
As a kid, I was lucky to have a Dad who was a top-notch book-cover maker, wrapping my school textbooks in brown paper bags that he transformed into precisely folded, sharp cornered, blank canvases.
Let me give you the bottom line first, then the rationale: If you're reading Barron's, you need Quicken to help manage your finances. Honest.
Santorum's Filibusters Rick Santorum, who's drawing increased attention from voters lately, is betraying his roots in the famously long-winded Senate. He talks—a lot.
Investments in IT-driven analytics projects are unlikely to pay off without corresponding improvements in employee analytic skills. Leading finance organizations are meeting that challenge by boosting their own analytic acumen and ...
The Yankees announced Thursday that they were unable to reach an agreement on a contract with Japanese infielder Hiroyuki Nakajima, whom they won the right to negotiate with through the posting process last month. As a result, the Seibu ...
Industrial giants Honeywell International Inc. and United Technologies predicted a tough European economy would slow growth next year, and are banking on strong emerging markets to buoy their performance.
Barron's 2012 Roundtable Part 1 Barron's 2012 Roundtable Part 2 Tireless as well as prescient, Marc Faber has warned Roundtable readers repeatedly that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unnaturally low "as far as the eye can see." ...
It can scarcely have escaped anyone's attention that 2012 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth. If you missed the last two biographies—one, by Michael Slater, jumping the gun in 2009, and another, by Claire Tomalin, published ...