Check out this graphic I found on the myFICO website: I took the information found in that chart and made another graphic showing just how much interest a person would pay over a 30-year mortgage...

Take a look at the following graph which shows the maximum dollar amount subject to social security taxes each year: Using the base amount of $3,000 in 1937 and $106,800 in 2009, I calculated...

Long time readers of AFM know that I like to look at things differently through the use of spreadsheets. I have kind of gotten away from such posts in recent months. But, after reading comments...

I read about this Kimberly Strassel column about Safeway’s health plan last week and meant to mention it but forgot. As recently as 2004, Safeway was suffocating under health-care costs growing...

2008 screwed everything up! Take a look at the returns for the S&P 500 Index over the last 10, 20, 30 and 40 years: The last ten years were pretty pathetic and have led to new “research” like...