Kathy M. Kristof

Kenneth Jarosch fired his lawn service and canceled his magazine subscriptions. He and his wife are such avid users of grocery coupons, he jokes that the store pays him to...

Federal authorities on Monday unveiled charges against three men in what they said was the largest identity fraud case in U.S. history. Private financial information on consumers across the United...

Interest rates on student loans have dropped to the lowest levels in more than three decades, thanks to the recent rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. That's good news for...

Think you want to put your money where your values are? The toughest part of so-called social investing has always been finding the companies and funds that have values that...

Vanessa Hastings had been helping her parents and friends with their tax returns for years, but she still considered herself a novice tax preparer. When her parents retired, she was...

Sick of resolving to clean up your financial life, only to find a few months down the road that you've failed? I say let's pass the buck in 1995 and...

They came from all walks of life-repairmen, mechanics, doctors, supermarket clerks, attorneys and retirees. Bearing photographs, diagrams and charts, they descended one recent day on a Pasadena, Calif., courtroom with...

When investment returns on certificates of deposit began to fall into the basement, Barbara Houskeeper's finances began to look grim. She had become seriously ill. And though she was far...