Three Ways to Make a Divorce Easier on Your Kids – Divorces are never easy, even if they’re quick and amiable, and if you have kids you want to do whatever you can to make the whole situation as easy as possible on them. Here are three ways to lessen the impact of a divorce on your kids.

Mortgage rates wander higher but remain near yearly lows – The market composite index — a measure of total loan application volume — rose 2.8 percent from the previous week. The refinance index increased 4 percent, while the purchase index ticked up 1 percent.

WHY IT MATTERS: Debt – THE ISSUE: The federal government is borrowing about 1 out of 7 dollars it spends and steadily piling up debt — to the tune of about $14 trillion held by investors. Over the long term, that threatens the economy and our pocketbooks.