Daria Dolan

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. A reverse mortgage can sound like a tempting concept: Instead of you sending a mortgage payment each month, you receive one from the bank. Gee,...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. With the presidential election just days away, you would think we'd be hearing about some real solutions to the unprecedented challenges facing...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. Dear Ken and Daria, Is my annuity safe in this market meltdown? -Lester We know many of you rely on annuities for retirement income. There are...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. There's plenty of talk when it comes to retirement planning about how to save, where to save, and the amount to save. But what happens when...

Americans spent more than $2.3 trillion on health care last year. That's more than $7,600 per person -- and it's going to get worse! The government projects that in less than a decade, you'll spend 20% of your annual income on health care. Health care has been a major theme during this year's...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. The financial crisis is taking on a new victim: retirement. Planning and saving is hard enough, let alone trying to do it in the midst of a...

We call them "money moments" -- those situations when we are forced to make a money decision on the spot with those seemingly simple questions posed to us under pressure from a salesperson that tie your stomach up in knots wondering if you're really getting a good deal or just getting ripped...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. Dear Ken and Daria, A family member has asked me for a loan. Is this a good idea, and what is the best way to go about it? -Marion Would...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Click here to ask Ken and Daria your question. Here's the truth: Americans are drowning in debt. Consumers currently owe nearly $700 billion on all credit cards and carry, on average, more...

We now have a "Dirty Dozen." This weekend, Ameribank Inc. failed -- the 12th bank this year. And trust us, it won't be the last. We don't expect this to be as bad as the nearly 900 banks that went under from bad loans in the early 1990s during the S&L crisis. That's right -- in case you've...