Personal finance from around the Web: Unemployed? Consider working for Uncle Sam. The federal government will add more than 190,000 jobs to its payroll over the next few years. [Wise Bread] Health insurers and policymakers...

Personal finance from around the Web: A simple trick to cut your spending: Estimate the annual cost of what you're buying. [Debt-Proof Living via Free Money Finance] Fearful of fraud? Of course, you are. In...

Personal finance from around the Web: Two steps forward, one (almost) back: On Monday a New York district court judge rejected a proposal by the SEC and 12 Wall Street firms which would have eradicated...

Personal finance from around the Web: Homerbuilders' shares suggest that the housing market is ready to fly solo without the assistance of stimulus programs. [Bloomberg] No free lunch...at 30,000 feet: Continental, the last major US...

Personal finance from around the Web: Banks in Los Angeles now have a new incentive to make loan modifications, open branches in poorer neighborhoods and invest in the city. Those banks that rank lowest in...

Personal finance from around the web: A 46-year-old Pittsburgh woman is suing Bank of America for mistakenly repossessing her home and confiscating her prized pet parrot. The woman's mortgage was up to date, but she...