Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. From Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to Bridalplasty, American culture has hit a saturation point in our fascination with the makeover. However, focusing some of that reinvention energy toward a more staid subject [...]
Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year, is coming up on January 24. How was it calculated? Here’s the official formula, courtesy of the U.K.’s Mental Health Foundation: According to the scientists who developed it, “The model was broken down using six immediately identifiable factors; weather (W), debt (d), time since Christmas [...]
Val Kilmer may have played Iceman in Top Gun, but he’s not about to outmaneuver the taxman for the second time. In April 2010, Kilmer settled a $538,858 tax debt with the IRS. But that wasn’t all he owed to the feds, because in November, the IRS filed a new lien — worth $498,165 — [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. Are you still sticking to your New Year’s resolutions? Good for you! You’ll hit your financial goals for 2011 even faster if you break these five common money-wasting habits. Fully fund an [...]
