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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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January 26, 2010 – 6:04 pm
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, [...]
January 15, 2010 – 4:39 pm
Not long ago, I received an email from Wachovia Bank advertising a new program called Way2Save. It’s one example of the automatic savings programs now being offered by a range of different banks. Here’s how it works at Wachovia: We’ll transfer $1 from your Wachovia checking account to your Way2Save account when you make everyday [...]
January 14, 2010 – 10:10 am
If you’re working on Capitol Hill, you may have joined us Tuesday for our webinar on credit markets and personal credit history. In line with that topic, there’s good news on the horizon for consumers concerned about the effect credit scores have on the terms they’re offered from a lender. Starting in January of 2011, [...]
