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Mortgage rates may affect payoff calculusThe mortgage payoff calculus may change based on whether people can outearn their mortgage rates with safe, guaranteed investments, Benz said. For mortgage rates that are 6% or more, paying that balance off will provide a guaranteed return. Admittedly, the argument over whether to pay off mortgages is "much more emotional and psychological than it is financial," Jenkin said. The big money questions people ask themselves to prepare for retirement are just as important as the emotional ones. What brought you joy while you were working may change in retirement, Michael Finke, a professor of wealth management at The American College of Financial Services, tells Benz.
Persons: Jessica Lautz, Benz, JL Collins, Collins, Robert Daly, Ted Jenkin, Jenkin, Michael Finke Organizations: Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, National Association of Realtors, Benz, Getty, CNBC, CNBC FA, The American College of Financial Services Locations: Atlanta
THE ART THIEF: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession, by Michael FinkelAt first, Stéphane Breitwieser, the subject of Michael Finkel’s “The Art Thief,” appears to be having an enviable amount of fun. Twenty-five years old and living with his girlfriend, Anne-Catherine Kleinklaus, in a small set of upstairs rooms in his mother’s home in a “hardscrabble” manufacturing suburb in eastern France, Breitwieser is unburdened by such quotidian concerns as a job, making rent or planning for the future. He fancies himself a purer sort of soul, so devoted to beauty he must, in Finkel’s words, “gorge on it.” Over the course of a dizzying 200 pages that are also an effective advertisement for Swiss Army knives (Breitwieser’s only tool), he removes artwork after artwork from museums — a.k.a. “prisons for art” — and becomes “perhaps the most successful and prolific art thief who has ever lived.” He piled all $2 billion worth of artifacts he amassed over eight years into that same attic in his mother Mireille Stengel’s “nondescript” stucco house. Finkel includes satisfying evidence of this astounding loot in a color insert that shows a crammed jumble of “ethereal” ivory carvings, shining silver goblets, unctuous oil paintings and more.
Persons: Michael Finkel, Stéphane Breitwieser, Michael Finkel’s “, , Anne, Catherine Kleinklaus, Mireille Stengel’s, Finkel, George Petel’s, Adam, Eve ”, Napoleon himself, Stengel Organizations: Swiss Army, Locations: France
In fact, experts say now may be the time to consider what small banks have to offer. Depositors appear to be fleeing small banks because they fear problems in the banking sector could spread beyond the tiny number of troubled banks that have made headlines so far. “Which is bad for them, but good for their customers.”Of course, online banks also offer savers high interest rates that meet or exceed what most small banks offer. Small bank loansIf you are looking for a loan, small banks have a lot to offer, too. And if you already have a relationship with a small bank, you might be able to obtain more favorable borrowing terms.
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