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Jumbo Loans for Beginners 05/03/2018 08:00pm • A jumbo mortgage sounds like the stuff of millionaires, but that's not necessarily true. While it is a larger debt than most home mortgages, a jumbo loan may be your best choice, depending on your income, the price of the home you want to buy and the menu of loan options available to you. Learn wha How to Minimize Taxes for a Child Learning to Invest 05/01/2018 08:00pm • The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed last year does more than just affect your taxes; it also has the potential to trigger a hefty tax bill for a child learning to invest. The "kiddie tax," as it is commonly known, kicks in after a child has $2,100 of unearned income, such as investment gains. The tax a Want to Put Money in an Offshore Account? Here's What You Need to Know 04/25/2018 08:00pm • Stashing money in a Swiss bank account sounds like something best left to corrupt corporations and villains in espionage novels. "In the movies, it's always portrayed as a shady thing," says Scott Sargent, an attorney with legal firm Baker Donelson in Birmingham, Alabama. However, the reality is the Q&A: As 'The Handmaid's Tale' returns, Samira Wiley talks Season 2, DC roots 04/25/2018 12:26am • WASHINGTON — It was crowned Best TV Drama at both the Emmys and Golden Globes. On Wednesday, "The Handmaid's Tale" returns for another harrowing season on Hulu. Rather than release all 10 episodes, Hulu is piece-mealing them two at a time, which is just fine by Emmy nominee and D.C. nati 11 Ways to Support Family Members While in Retirement 04/24/2018 08:00pm • Retirement marks the start of a new phase of life when you no longer need to show up at the office every day. Now that you have more free time, there will likely be many individuals in your life who look to you for help. Many retirees are sandwiched between aging parents who need care and children a 9 Stocks That Make Great Graduation Gifts 04/22/2018 08:00pm • Give the gift of capital appreciation.Graduation season is here, and finding the perfect graduation gift couldn't be simpler. You could hand over the typical envelope of cash or -- if you're trying to win some hearts -- a car. But what value do such gifts really provide? The money will be spent by s 4 Lessons to Close the Investing Knowledge Gap 04/19/2018 08:00pm • Knowledge is a valuable currency for investors, but a new survey from micro-investing platform Stash Invest suggests they still have a lot to learn about the market. Forty-two percent of those surveyed didn't understand inflation. Forty percent were clueless about compounding interest. And nearly ha 12 best Earth Day sales for 2018 04/17/2018 08:00pm • Earth Day has been celebrated in some form since 1970, and these days, it is held every year on April 22. Traditions include planting trees, picking up litter, getting outdoors and rethinking wasteful daily habits. Retailers have a tradition, too: offering promos. Earth Day promotions run the gam 6 Tips to Get the Most Value Out of a Trip to Ikea 04/16/2018 08:00pm • Ikea is a great store for getting reasonably priced and reasonable-looking furniture for your home or office. It's easy to spend hours in its warehouse-like stores, wandering the aisles and envisioning the changes you might make to the various rooms in your home, and you can often find some nice ba 4 Mistakes IRA Investors Can't Afford 04/16/2018 08:00pm • Individual retirement accounts have been the ugly duckling of investments. No longer. IRAs now account for more than $8.2 trillion of American's retirement assets. More than 42 million households count on IRA's to help fund their retirement. IRAs started off simple in 1974, but like our tax code ha Q&A: WWE legend Mick Foley brings '20 Years of Hell' tour to DC Improv 04/08/2018 11:38pm • WASHINGTON -- "Good, God Almighty! ... As God as my witness, he is broken in half!" Jim Ross' legendary call cemented the most brutal match in WWE history, as Mick Foley's masked masochist Mankind faced the undead phenom The Undertaker in a "Hell in a Cell" match at the "King of the Ring" pa Orioles overcome 5-run deficit, stop Yanks 8-7 in 12 innings 04/08/2018 09:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) _ Things were getting beyond dicey for Brad Brach and the Baltimore Orioles. Bases loaded, no outs. Clinging to a one-run lead in the 12th. Big boppers Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton coming up. But boosted by an alert play from catcher Caleb Joseph, Brach escaped his own jam. 6 Lessons From the First Year of Retirement 03/29/2018 08:00pm • Once you get through the first year of retirement, you probably think you can coast for the next 30 years. That's not necessarily true. This is not the time to get comfortable. Things are never that simple in retirement. As you head into year two, it's the perfect time to assess what you're doing r Musings On the Eve of Cardiac Bypass Surgery 03/28/2018 08:00pm • In my line of work, cardiac bypass surgery is a surgery I recommend for my patients at least once a week. When I discuss surgery, I mostly talk about the risks and the recovery -- the mechanics of returning to a normal life. I rarely talk about what it will feel like to go through surgery. But rece Make the Most of Your Trump Tax Reform Savings 03/28/2018 08:00pm • President Donald Trump's great Christmas gift to Americans may benefit him and other wealthy people the most, but that doesn't mean middle-class investors can't take advantage of the tax reform to improve their financial health. The average taxpayer will save $2,940, according to the Tax Policy Cent