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Category Archives: Econ4U

Tuesday Top 5: Factors That May Affect Your Job Search

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. In a down economy and with so many people looking for work, job seekers should take every precaution to avoid giving employers a reason not to hire them. Make sure your application [...]

Tuesday Top 5: How to Turn Your Car Into a Money Pit

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. There are 246 million cars owned in the United States, so chances are good you have one of them. But next to a house and an education, a car may well be [...]

Tuesday Top 5: How Jobless Teens Can Stay Busy

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. As we’ve blogged before, this is a tough summer to be a teenager. There are very few job opportunities for unskilled workers this year, as evidenced by the 26.4 percent national unemployment [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Common Job-Interview Blunders

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. If you’re a new college graduate, it’s entirely possible you’ve never interviewed for a job in a formal office environment. (And even if you have a few internships under your belt, it [...]

Could New Banking Rules Spell the End of Free Checking?

The Wall Street Journal took a fascinating look this week at how new banking regulations that were designed to protect consumers may instead lead to more fees: Bank of America Corp. and other banks are preparing new fees on basic banking services as they try to replace revenue lost to regulatory rules, in a push that [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Live Well and Still Retire Rich

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. If you’ve ever uncovered “found money” and decided to save most of it, you’re already acquainted with the idea of consumption smoothing. It’s the economic principle that people avoid abrupt swings in [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Summer Job Tips for Teens

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. Unfortunately, summer 2010 is turning out to be a tough job market for teenagers and unskilled workers, but there are still ways for young people to spend the summer productively. Here are [...]

Test Your Financial Literacy Smarts With Our Quizzes

April is not just tax season, it’s also Financial Literacy Month. So now is the perfect time to test your money knowledge on one of our 10 quizzes. Think you’re an expert on entrepreneurship? How savvy are you on saving? Can you cut it when it comes to credit cards? Or if you’re really up to [...]

Econ4U Blog Beat

Looking for budgeting tips? Want to know how NOT to make celebrity spending mistakes? Curious about credit options? See what’s been happening recently on the blog with our round up of recent popular posts! APR or Actual Interest Paid? Wedding Bells and Wedding Budgets Credit Options with the Best Ratings Money Apps for Your Smartphone [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Lessons in Entrepreneurship for Kids

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. This week, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote about what the country really needs instead of yet another economic stimulus package: What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, [...]