NEW YORK, Jan 31 (Reuters) – You might think that Sunday’s
Super Bowl XLVII between the Baltimore Ravens and the San
Francisco 49ers, which pits brothers John and Jim Harbaugh
against one another as coaches, is all about the game.

But what happens on the field might be just the tip of the
iceberg for sibling rivalry. What about deep-seated issues like
who makes more money? Or who does mom really love best?

NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) – When Doug Haslam gets on his
bike, it’s for personal as well as philanthropic reasons.

Of course, the 44-year-old social media consultant from
Newton, Massachusetts, derives intrinsic joy from riding his
Specialized Allez Sport.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – For Jim Kucera, the pain was just getting worse. The salesman from New Hope, Minnesota, needed a hip replacement urgently, but the cost of treatment would also be painful: Lacking health insurance, he would have to pay out of pocket.

At first, Kucera looked abroad at countries like Israel and India, where he figured he could get the procedure done for about $30,000, a bargain compared with the $50,000 or more that American hospitals would likely charge.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time for some good news: Despite a big stock-market run-up, there are still bargains to be had.

That’s because the rising market has not yet translated into a major expansion of price-to-earnings ratios, a key metric for valuing companies.

NEW YORK, Dec 13 (Reuters) – When Sharon Doyle thinks about
college savings for her two kids, the numbers are almost too big
to comprehend.

Doyle, 44, recently calculated expected college costs for
her three-year-old daughter. It worked out to be north of
$500,000 – a whopping figure for even the most well-heeled
Americans.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – With the “fiscal cliff” looming, taxpayers are wringing their hands about all sorts of things. Income taxes might rise, dividends might get walloped, lifetime gift-tax exemptions might get slashed.

But when it comes to immediate impact on their wallets, maybe they should be thinking about something else entirely: The Apple tax.

NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) – With the “fiscal cliff”
looming, taxpayers are wringing their hands about all sorts of
things. Income taxes might rise, dividends might get walloped,
lifetime gift-tax exemptions might get slashed.

But when it comes to immediate impact on their wallets,
maybe they should be thinking about something else entirely: The
Apple tax.

NEW YORK, Dec 7 (Reuters) – As any astronaut will tell you,
re-entry is the trickiest and most dangerous part of space
flight.

The same might be said about returning jobseekers. Despite
the challenges of increased competition and gap-filled resumes,
more people who left the workforce, whether voluntarily or
involuntarily, are coming back into it, according to the U.S.
Labor Department. And they have not always found it easy to
reboot careers that may have stalled in the last recession.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walk into any American conversation, and there are two volatile issues that could make it explode at any moment: Race, and money.

Combine the two, and spontaneous combustion is guaranteed.

Which is why no one ever talks about it. But given the rapidly rising number of interracial marriages in this country, perhaps it is time to discuss how coming from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds can sometimes lead to disparate attitudes toward money and security.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Not long after the megastorm Sandy hit the northeast United States, Maryum Goodwin and her little girl Ryleigh, 6, saw a disturbing picture of the New Jersey shore devastation.

“That’s somebody’s house?” Ryleigh asked.

“It used to be,” said Maryum, a stay-at-home mother from Kennesaw, Georgia.