Congress has extended the popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers and created a new tax break for homeowners looking to trade up.

When President Obama signed the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 into law earlier this month there was an audible sigh of relief from the real estate industry.
The first-time buyers’ tax credit [...]

How long does it take 16 of the biggest names in sports to make as much as you do in an entire year?
Go to ESPN Salary Crunch, pick your favorite star, enter your annual income and prepare to be humbled.
If you’re not a grossly overpaid bank executive you’ll need a stopwatch, not a calendar, to [...]

Jon Stewart begins this segment of The Daily Show by worrying that we’re never going to see any serious reform of the banking and financial industry.
“You get the sense they want to preserve as many loopholes as possible,” Stewart says. “It’s kind of like we’re going to cut down on robberies. From now on [...]

Taco Bell is my usual stop for Saturday lunch.
But I may postpone today’s trip because Taco Bell’s offering everyone a free Black Jack taco from 6 p.m. to midnight.
These babies usually cost 89 cents and I can’t find anything on the Taco Bell Web site that says you have to buy anything to get your [...]

Here’s a way to earn 3% on some of your money between now and the end of November.

Sign-up for the Sears Christmas Club before Oct. 31 and then figure out how much you’re likely to spend at Sears and its affiliates — Kmart, the great indoors and Lands’ End — by [...]

If you’re looking for easy to understand legal advice on all sorts of financial problems you need “Money, Credit and the Law — Know Your Rights!”
It’s a free, six-part series of online videos produced by the Center for Consumer Law at the University of Houston Law Center.
In them, law professor Richard Alderman explains how to [...]

I wanted a new dermatologist.
Not only did my ex-doc’s smarmy billing tactics piss me off, but he made me feel like an ATM machine: He got his cash and he got me out of there.
I wanted a doctor who would take time with my office visits, listen to my concerns, look at my medical history [...]

I just had a doctor overcharge me (twice) and keep the extra money until I figured out what happened.
First I was asked to make an erroneous co-payment.
Then I was billed too much to cover what my health insurance company didn’t pay.
The doctor kept the extra money as a credit on my account without telling me, [...]

Happy Birthday to us!
Bankaholic is three this summer and we thought it would be a good time to look back and pick our 10 favorite, dare we say greatest, deals.

We combed through almost 600 posts to find everything from sky-high CD rates to the best gift for opening a new account — and it [...]