Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion in the past 15 months — about 20 percent of their value — Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday as lawmakers began investigating how turmoil in the financial industry is whittling a

The recent announcement by the President of his proposal to buy out hundreds of billions of dollars worth of mortgage assets in order to stop the bleeding in the financial circles may have had somewhat of an adverse effect.

There aren’t 3 numbers more important than those which make up one’s FICO Credit Score, for that score will be the determining factor as to whether someone receives a loan for a car, boat or a mortgage for a new home.