It's hard to think there's anything funny about taxes when you're under a mountain of paperwork, but CBS News contributor and analyst Mellody Hobson has a little comic relief for taxpayers.

The midnight rush to get your taxes filed by April 15th is going to be heavier than usual this year, as up to 25% of taxpayers are estimated to wait until the final two weeks to take care of this annual headache.

With interest rates on safe investments running anywhere from 0.01% to 1.5% a year, you don’t have to be a securities regulator to know that any investment offering 1.5% to 2.1% interest a day might be a scam.

Every time you go to a new doctor or dentist and they give you a clipboard brimming with documents to fill out and sign, notice how they always ask for your Social Security number? Do you dutifully give it up? Did you ever wonder if they really need it?

The news of the retirement crisis is inescapable. The latest numbers illustrating the point are, as usual, alarming.

Paying taxes is on everyone's mind, rarely in a good way. Knowing some pithy facts about our tax system and how you fit in may not make you feel any better.

The so-called trust funds out of which the Social Security pays benefits to retirees are expected to run out of money in 2033. Is this a problem that the stock market can solve?

You might think it’s impossible to avoid a retirement crisis in this country, especially in the wake of a report this week that shows Americans are not very confident about their prospects for having a comfortable retirement.

You might not think it’s a risk at the moment, what with the market close to all-time highs. But at some point the market will fall again.

One of the most common misconceptions consumers have about credit scores is that they only have one. In fact, there are many credit scoring models that all feed off of the same data that you see on your credit report.