Mortgage applications surged last week, coming mostly from borrowers looking to refinance at sharply lower rates after the Federal Reserve unveiled plans to buy Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities. ...more

March 26, 2009

The days are now officially numbered for the smelly, black water flowing from taps in the Seven Springs and Aloha Gardens communities. ...more

February 19, 2009

Battered housing developers are a getting a bit more optimistic about their prospects for the next six months, an index of the sector's confidence showed Tuesday. ...more

September 17, 2008

What are the tax consequences when someone dies and leaves a series E government bond that has matured, not redeemed? ...more

January 31, 2008

Three U.S. economists, one of them a 90-year-old professor emeritus from Minnesota, will share this year's Nobel prize in economics for their work on how people's knowledge and self-interest affect their behavior in the market or in social situations such as voting and labor negotiations. ...more

October 16, 2007