If you're like most Americans, you have no idea what it feels like to be financially free. Consider this: Saving just one dollar a day can get you a long way there.

More banks are slashing credit limits on our plastic. Six ways to keep the spigot open.

If you're willing to bet that the U.S. car industry can somehow survive its current crisis, Wall Street is willing to quote you generous odds. Ready to gamble? Take a look at Ford call options.

A real vacation, like they show on TV, would cost real dollars. The Cheapskate recounts the highs and the lows of the all-expenses-spared family getaway.

Cash-strapped U.S. consumers hurt by the weak economy continued to fall behind on credit payments during the first quarter, a trend one financial-industry group said is likely to continue.

When growth investors sell, the saying goes, they sell to value investors. That is perhaps happening now with VimpelCom, a Russian cellphone-service provider.

With the country's uncertain economy, financial education is expanding to younger kids, even grade-school students. This summer, school-age children will attend finance camp, where they'll learn how to rebalance portfolios and invest in real estate.

Congress and the next president are expected to reach a compromise on future estate tax rules. Here's a look at what tax plans could lie ahead and how families would be affected by them.

It's official: We're in a bear market. Things are not all that bad, at least not yet. This isn't yet cause for action according to the Common Sense system. The next buying threshold will be 2060 on the Nasdaq.

Cash-strapped consumers are coming up with creative ways to fight higher costs. Gaining popularity: the ancient art of bartering.

At times like this, it's worth remembering: the market doesn't reward the timid. But those that can stomach the current turmoil should be well rewarded in the future.

Visa is dropping rules that required consumers to enter a four-digit personal identification number, or PIN, for debit-card purchases.

A Princeton alumnus and chairman of Andlinger & Co. investment firm is giving the university $100 million to create an engineering center to study energy and the environment.

Our columnist answers a question about Social Security's so-called earnings test for a reader in his first year collecting benefits.