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A new study by Kaiser Family Foundation is providing some evidence to back up horror stories about rising health care insurance costs, revealing insurance companies have tried to raise individual plan costs by 20% in the past year. The publicity, combined with fear of actions by state and federal...

Do you own an Xbox 360? If so then there's a pretty good chance that your Xbox 360 has failed once, contributing to the absurdly high Xbox 360 failure rate which was announced in late April by NoFussReviews.com. The console failure rate survey found out what anyone who has a few friends with an...

Following the devastating earthquakes that hit Chile and Haiti, some insurance companies are hiking rates on earthquake insurance by as much as 200%. A recent Los Angeles Times article reported that California-based GeoVera Insurance Company nearly tripled one customer's premium, from $2,500 to...

The Federal Reserve did what it was widely expected to do and left monetary policy unchanged Wednesday. It's keeping the target federal funds rate within a historically low 0% to 0.25% range and repeating its pledge to keep it there for an extended period.

Got a Citibank credit card, or any one of the co-branded cards, including Sears and MySpace, among many others? You may have hoped you'd be safe from unreasonable rate hikes thanks to new Federal constraints on banks' ability to raise rates for borrowers. But those laws don't go into effect until...

Business as usual for credit-card holders means, of course, more bad news today. The banks are raising cardholders' late and over-limit fees and interest rates; USA Today delivers the sordid details. The lenders couch their rising interest rates as a means to offset unprecedented delinquency (when...

Ken and Daria Dolan, America's First Family of Personal Finance, answer your money questions every Friday. Dear Ken and Daria, With all the interest rate cuts the Fed has made, why does it take so long for them to reflect in refinancing a mortgage? -John Mortgage rates aren't the only thing...