OPINION

Millions of Americans have gone broke by buying their dream home and now financial innovation is needed to help savers and mortgage holders get out of debt.

By taking policy rates to close to 0 percent and pushing deposit rates below zero, the move by Denmark may have opened the window for the ECB to take action at their meeting next week.

The Food Network crowned its next Star on Sunday night, and as predicted, 27-year-old Brooklyn chef Justin Warner was named the winner of Season 8 of The Next Food Network Star. Of all of the past Food Network Star winners, Warner was the first chosen entirely by an online audience vote. Even though the voting system resulted in the right winner, the system should be axed entirely.

In light of the horrific shootings in Aurora, Colo., last Friday during the midnight release of “The Dark Knight Rises,” Warner Brothers is apparently kicking around the idea of re-editing their upcoming Ryan Gosling/Sean Penn film “Gangster Squad”.

Internet users and investors were heartened last week when Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), elected Marissa Mayer, 37, as its third CEO in less than a year. A hedge fund gets part of the credit but not all hedge funds score as well in the tech sector: how about Eastman Kodak (Pink: EKDKQ)?

James Holmes, the alleged gunman believed to be responsible for the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that took place on Friday, is currently in custody at the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office Detention Facility in Centennial, Colo.

Investors can monitor five stats to obtain a reading on the U.S. economy’s strength. Currently, these stats show a slowdown in U.S. GDP growth, which is why Congress should do more to create jobs and help increase the economy’s growth rate.

It seems that we witness a similar massacre about once a year or so in the U.S.

How rude! Jodie Sweetin is heading to court after filing a lawsuit against Clark Taylor Savros, the driver who struck her car in Los Angeles over a year ago.

Is 2012 the year of the spawn of the devil? Snooki might be off the hook with birthing Satan's child since Michael Lohan announced this week that Kate Major, his on-the-restraining order, off-the-restraining-order girlfriend is expecting. But the real question is what are they expecting?

Many people believe that, unless a person has experienced some kind of physical or sexual abuse, they should keep mum on the subject. But there are successful ways for men to discuss rape.

Some NBA owners don;t want players participating in the Olympics

It's as if the campaign is asking me to imagine that I am the president's child and he my benevolent father.

History isn’t just what’s happened. It’s also what happened in the context of what might have occurred. This isn’t counterfactual history -- it’s a way to illustrate what was at stake.

If Los Angeles can acquire Dwight Howard for Andrew Bynum, they would immediately become the best team in the NBA.

The Knicks should have re-signed Jeremy Lin.

With last week's hubbub over Condoleezza Rice as possible veep, you may have missed how a House Republican group took legislative action to increase government subsidies to the one percent.

The other side of the coin -- receiving less attention but meriting far more -- is his determination to preserve the Bush tax cuts for those under the $250,000 threshold.

The saga, drama and tragedy of the Kennedys rivals that of any authentic royal family the world had ever seen.

Here's a primer on the place of gold in an investment portfolio.

High nominal and real interest rates can be found in the Latin American short-term fixed income markets

The generation of British and American musicians who created the extraordinary generation of music and pop culture changes during the 1960s are now dying off.

Taking inspiration from global regulatory investigations into the interest rate manipulation, the U.S. is now building strong evidence of criminal wrongdoings against big banks and individuals ensnared in the heart of the scam.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pointed out that Mitt Romney could be in big trouble if he is wrong about when he left Bain Capital.

Sadly, another surfer has been killed off the coast of Australia, but humans need to recognize they are putting themselves at risk.

Consider: at New York’s Stuyvesant H.S., one of the best in the country, more than 80 students are ensnared in a cheating probe of a city language exam administered last month. Cellphone accounts are intercepted by cops. Is anything electronic immune?

The controversy surrounding Daniel Tosh's comments might be a surprise to anyone who has spent time in a comedy club.

As the son of Indian immigrants, Jindal would ease Romney’s image of being the candidate of rich, white, country club WASPs.

Events in Libya and Egypt highlight the potential benefits of United States human rights promotion -- both for the U.S. and for people across the world -- as well as the downsides of America's failure to pursue that task.