The table of contents to articles—supplemented with illustrations, charts, and examples for quick comprehension—about all aspects of earning, saving, and investing money.
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Credit and Debt
If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey.
— Bo Diddley
Debt Collection
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
— Rabelais
Debt and Taxes
I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four
o'clock this afternoon.
— Henny Youngman
Bankruptcy
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
— Woody Allen
Bankruptcy Fundamentals
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
— Jackie Mason
Pre-Bankruptcy Period
Special Topics
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— e.e. cummings
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Insurance
Insurance Fundamentals
- Risk - A tutorial about risk and insurance.
- Risks, Perils, And Hazards
- Handling Risk
- Insurance; Insurable Risks; Underwriting And Adverse Selection - A tutorial about the basics of insurance companies, underwriting and adverse selection, and what constitutes an insurable risk.
- Legal Liability and Negligence
- Law of Large Numbers - Using the Law of Large Numbers to determine underwriting risk and insurance premiums.
- Indemnity - How property insurance pays for losses.
- Insurable Interest - What constitutes an insurable interest, and when must it exist?
- Subrogation
- Utmost Good Faith—Representations, Concealments, And Warranties - Why honesty is the best policy in insurance.
- Insurance Contracts
- Standard Insurance Policies
- Insurance Deductibles - The different types of deductibles and how they reduce insurance premiums.
- Coinsurance - How coinsurance reduces health insurance premiums, and equalizes rates for property insurance.
- Multiple Insurance Coverage: Pro Rata Liability, Contribution Of Equal Shares, And Primary And Excess Insurance - What determines how much each insurance policy pays when multiple policies cover the same loss.
- Credit-Based Insurance Scores - How and why personal credit scores affect insurance rates.
Insurance Companies
Types of Insurance
Homeowners Insurance
Life Insurance
Life Insurance Contracts
Health Insurance
Commercial Insurance
Special Insurance
Insurance Resources
Real Estate
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
— Will Rogers
Real Estate Fundamentals
- Real Estate, Real Property, And Land—Basic Definitions And Concepts
- Legal Descriptions Of Real Estate
- Real Estate Encumbrances: Liens, Deed Restrictions, Easements, and Encroachments
- Estates in Land: The Fee Simple Estate and the Life Estate
- Forms of Real Estate Ownership - A tutorial about the different forms of real estate ownership, including ownership in severalty, tenancy in common, joint tenancy, tenancy in the entirety, common property, trusts, and business entities, such as corporations, partnerships, and real estate syndicates.
- Types of Deeds: General and Special Warranty Deeds, Bargain and Sale Deeds, Quitclaim Deeds, Trust Deeds, and Court-Order Deeds
- Title Records
- Real Estate Title Insurance
- Real Estate Title Transfer
- Real Estate Agency
- Listing Agreements and Buyer Agency Agreements
- Real Estate Appraisal: Sales Comparison Approach, Cost Approach, Income Approach
- Real Estate Closing; Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
Special Topics in Real Estate
Real Estate Types
Rentals
Mortgages
- Mortgage Calculator — Mortgage calculator that shows, in a table, monthly payment, total interest paid, and total payment for 5 to 50 year mortgages. For a specified interest rate, calculate the monthly payment for a given loan, or calculate the loan amount for a monthly payment.
- Mortgage Fundamentals - A complete, but concise, tutorial about mortgages, with illustrative examples and real world data for better comprehension.
- Reverse Mortgages
Real Estate Resources
- Real Estate Blog — This document contains entries from the Money blog that are specifically about real estate, organized chronologically.
- Real Estate Links — Organized by category. Links, about buying a home or investing in real estate, organized into subtopics, including real estate news, tutorials, articles, listings, buying, financing, and mortgage calculators, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and major real estate websites. Includes blog entries, and summaries of good articles.
Taxes
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
— Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
— Will Rogers
Home Ownership
Wills, Estates, and Trusts
I have nothing, I owe a great deal; the rest I give to the poor.
—
the purported will of Rabelais
Wills and Estates
Intestate Distribution
Limits to Testamentary Freedom
Inheritance
Wills: Execution and Probate
Trusts
Investment Fundamentals
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
— Henny
Youngman
Banking and Financial Institutions
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a
large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
— Woody Allen
Banking History
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining,
but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
— Mark Twain
Mutual Funds, Exchange-Traded Funds, Hedge Funds, and Limited Partnerships
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
— Groucho Marx
- Mutual Funds — A complete, but concise, tutorial about mutual funds in a one-page format with sidebars, illustrations, formulas, examples, and clear definitions of basic terms.
- The Mutual Fund Prospectus
- Mutual Fund Fees and Expenses
- Open-End Mutual Funds: Purchases, Reinvestments, Redemptions, and Taxes
- The Taxation of Mutual Fund Distributions, Sales, Redemptions, and Exchanges
Other Types of Funds
Direct Participation Programs (DPPs)
Resources
Bonds and Other Fixed Income Securities
Bond Fundamentals
Types of Bonds
Money Market Instruments
Government Securities
Corporate Bonds
Asset-Backed Securities
Derivatives
Topics
Bond Resources
Stocks
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
— Will Rogers
Stock Fundamentals
Primary and Secondary Stock Market
Stock Valuation
Financial Ratios
Stock Indexes
Specialized Topics
Stock Resources
Options
- Stock Options and Index Options, an Illustrated Introduction with Examples.
- Option Strategies—Investment Strategies using Options, illustrated with graphs and examples.
- The Mechanics of Option Trading, Exercise, and Assignment; Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
- Optionlike Securities — Callable Bonds, Convertible Securities, and Warrants
- Put-Call Parity
- Theoretical Pricing Models: Binomial Option Pricing And The Black-Scholes Formula
- The Greeks: Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega, and Rho
- Employee Stock Options; Back-dated Options
- Exotic Options
Special Option Topics
Forex
Money can't buy you love, but it can greatly increase your prospects.
— wcs
Topics
Forex Resources
Technical Analysis
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
— J. Paul Getty
Earning Money
Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.
— Ecclesiastes 10:19
Saving Money
Shopping
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
— Henny Youngman
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