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Personal bankruptcy is a legal process for people who cannot pay off their debts.
Homeownership is a key to building wealth. Rates of homeownership increased during the 1990s and into the early 2000s.
The housing finance system is essential to creating a robust and competitive consumer mortgage market.
Traditional pensions largely have been replaced with 401(k)s and other retirement plans in which employees contribute to individual accounts.
Safeguards and vigilant enforcement against conflicts of interest are needed to protect investors, particularly small investors, and the financial markets.
In 2019, net assets of U.S. mutual funds totaled $21.3 trillion. Roughly 45.5 percent of all U.S.
Nearly half of U.S. households have invested in stocks or mutual funds.
Consumers lose billions of dollars each year to financial fraud, including investment fraud. Older adults are targets because they often have sizable assets.