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Black Friday car deals: Know the pros and cons of leasing or buying a car 11/22/2017 09:20am • WASHINGTON ��� Black Friday ads for buying or leasing a car are out in full force. And if you���re in the market for a new car, you may be asking yourself, ���Which is the better deal?��� If you love driving a new car with all the latest technology every three years, leasing may be your best opti How to (Finally) Understand Your Credit Report 11/21/2017 07:00pm • From Target to Home Depot to Sony, major data breaches have become an unfortunate, yet common, occurrence. There's a good chance your personal financial information has ended up in the hands of a criminal at least once, if not several times. Yet, nothing has come close to the most recent breach at Factor Student Loan Default Rates Into College Search 11/21/2017 07:00pm • High school juniors and seniors considering college options may concentrate on institutions' course offerings, location and price -- not a school's cohort default rate. But overlooking the CDR is a mistake. Prospective college students rarely consider what will happen to their student loans if they CDs Remain Useful Despite Low Yields 11/21/2017 07:00pm • Many investors, probably most, start as a child with a simple bank account. Later come stocks, bonds and funds, with bank accounts mainly used for everyday expenses. They're safe and convenient but don't pay much. A top-yielding certificate of deposit might pay a bit more than 2 percent if you're w $3.7B I-66 project would transform congested area 11/20/2017 08:16pm • CENTREVILLE, Va. -- Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe��led a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday for the long-awaited multibillion dollar highway project that would expand��I-66 to 10 lanes outside the Beltway����� three regular lanes and two Express Lanes in each direction. McAuliffe praised the Should Your Adult Kids Know What You Invest In? 11/20/2017 07:00pm • Being a parent in the 21st century means taking responsibility for your child's investing education. Since financial literacy is not part of the Common Core educational standards, it falls to parents to teach their children how to be financially responsible adults. That education often requires bei Investors Should Not Tap Into Retirement Funds Early 11/19/2017 07:00pm • Financial experts generally advise against borrowing from -- and especially withdrawing early -- from retirement accounts. And for good reason. Betterment certified financial planner Garrett Oakley puts it this way: "A 30-year-old worker living in Illinois wants to cash out $14,000 from his 401(k). When Your Landlord Is Facing Foreclosure: Options for Tenants 11/16/2017 07:00pm • Foreclosure filings in the U.S. are at the lowest levels in 11 years, according to ATTOM Data Solutions, which curates a property database. Default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions occurred on just 191,824 properties in the third quarter this year -- the lowest since the second qu 6 Risky Moves Homeowners Make When Selling 11/16/2017 07:00pm • Moving can be risky. Granted, it doesn't usually start out with much jeopardy. You shuttle yourself and your belongings from a college dorm or your parent's house into an apartment, and then maybe to another apartment and another. But when you buy a house, that's when the financial risk kicks in. A Is Peer-to-Peer Lending Safe for Income Investors? 11/15/2017 07:00pm • Anyone who has borrowed to buy a car or a taken out a home mortgage is familiar with the basics of how a loan works. In a nutshell, borrowers ask for money, and lenders decide how likely it is that they will see that money back. If repayment is unlikely, those lenders charge a high rate of interest Sinclair Broadcast to expand Md. HQ, add hundreds of jobs 11/15/2017 12:25pm • WASHINGTON ��� Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., working to complete its $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media, says it will invest $12 million in its Hunt Valley headquarters and more than double its Maryland workforce. Sinclair has 333 employees in Maryland currentl Speak Up About Student Loan Consumer Protections 11/14/2017 07:00pm • This week the U.S. Department of Education is convening a negotiated rule-making panel to try and hammer out the rules around student loan consumer protections. This is a do-over of sorts, since the panel will hash out two rules that were already negotiated previously: borrower defense to repayment DC-area small businesses are hiring 11/14/2017 09:10am • WASHINGTON ��� The nation's unemployment rate fell to a 17-year low of 4.1 percent in November, with more companies stepping up hiring, and small business owners in the D.C. area plan to do their share. A Bank of America fall 2017 Small Business Owner report found a high level of small business o Washington Has Made It Harder for You to Sue Your Credit Card Company. What Now? 11/13/2017 07:00pm • On Nov. 1, President Donald Trump signed a congressional resolution that can make it virtually impossible for customers to file class-action lawsuits against financial institutions, such as your neighborhood bank or credit card issuer. The signing was done without fanfare; that is, in private, in t Final I-66 outside Beltway toll hearings this week 11/13/2017 03:52am • WASHINGTON ��� Final public hearings will be held this week regarding two new toll lanes in each direction on Interstate 66 between the Beltway and Gainesville. The meetings are Monday night in Oakton, Tuesday in Centreville and Thursday in Bristow. These meetings are the last opportunity to weig