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I moved across town this week to a new home, and started the seemingly endless phone calls and emails to change my address, establish utilities, and generally get my new life in a new community in order. My call to the local power company was especially interesting....

Intriguing doesn't begin to cover it. Twice in two days we've seen the campaign topic du jour--student loan debt--tied to the housing crisis. But in two very different ways. The New York Times ran part one in their series "Degrees of Debt" that detailed how an entire...

Sometimes it's hard not to judge the world by what you see around you. Case in point: in Minneapolis, where a few of us MortgageKeeper folks live, the economy seems to be improving--considerably. Homes that have had "for sale" signs in the yard for two or even three...

For the most part, MortgageKeeper folks are "glass is half-full" types. But a recent rather "glass is half empty" commentary by Neel Kashkari, head of global equities for Pimco and a former assistant Treasury secretary who ran the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)...

We know Financial Literacy Month is half over, but we couldn't let the month go by without stressing how desperately it's needed in today's economy. The month of keen focus on how we should spend and save is sanctioned by our President and our Governor, and we wanted...

Imagine you are a struggling homeowner--barely making ends meet. (An all-too-common scenario these days.) You have three bills to pay this month: Credit cardsMortgageCar loan You can only afford to pay one of them. Which one do you choose? (Insert Jeopardy theme music...