• It’s that time of year when shareholders speak their minds at annual meetings. But that doesn’t mean the companies’ boards are always listening.    
  • Although high unemployment and lackluster personal income still plague the nation’s economy, several developments provide reason for longer-term optimism.    
  • It was a good week for leaders of two major American companies. But it brought frowns from some corporate-governance watchers.    
  • A long-running math miscalculation on what a father owes leads the Haggler to the New York City Office of Child Support Enforcement.    
  • Share your experience and tips on how to start a conversation about organizing your parents’ financial and legal affairs.    
  • Children may be reluctant to ask aging parents about their estate and financial affairs, but information shared can prevent confusion later.    
  • Baby boomers and other home buyers with limited incomes but substantial financial assets could qualify for low-rate conventional mortgages.    
  • As more people do their banking and investing online, the lack of a paper trail poses a problem for business partners, executors and heirs.    
  • Rates of “underwater” homeowners continue to fall, an analysis finds, but higher equity may still be necessary to sell a home.    
  • A hotel that helps with breast-feeding, showdown coming on student loan rates, disability and discrimination at the doctor’s office and other consumer-focused news from The New York Times.    
  • Borrowers in New York who switch lenders might be able to eliminate the state’s mortgage recording tax.    
  • What sort of insurance you need in the event of untimely death or disability depends on what your objectives are.    
  • An update on paid parental leave policies at American employers, including Disney, ExxonMobil, Fitch Ratings and others.    
  • Being polite can help get some airline fees waived.    
  • The hard road to a vegetable plot, phone timer apps help you stay on schedule, older adults may have flu immunity and other consumer-focused news from The New York Times.    
  • The federal government has imposed a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of homes with mortgages owned or backed by the Federal Housing Administration in areas devastated by this week’s tornado.    
  • Medical insurance costs for a family of four now exceeds $22,000 a year.    
  • Going vegetarian in tapas-happy Barcelona, paying extra for phone freedom, veterans are warned of “pension poachers” and other consumer-focused news from The New York Times.    
  • A New York man who rented his room in a two-bedroom apartment on Airbnb must pay a $2,400 fine for violating the city’s administrative code, a judge has ruled.    
  • African-Americans have higher levels of debt, including student loan debt, a survey finds.    

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