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, but more [...]
January 22, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Seasoned investors are likely aware of the “January effect,” a trend of the stock market to rise in January as people who sold losing stocks in December (to claim a loss for tax purposes) reinvest that money. But did you know the month can also be an economic predictor for the rest of the year?
Unfortunately, [...]
January 19, 2010 – 6:52 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.
Have you broken your New Year’s financial resolutions yet? If so, today’s edition will help you get back on track by pointing out the most common banking mistakes people make — and how [...]
January 15, 2010 – 5:48 pm
Booking your spring break trip to Cancun soon? Here’s something to keep in mind: Almost every major credit card carries an “international conversion surcharge” of up to 5 percent on every purchase you charge in a foreign country. The fee isn’t listed separately on your bill so you wouldn’t even know anything fishy was afoot [...]
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, the [...]
December 23, 2009 – 3:38 pm
Hannah’s post yesterday on how to get out of credit-card debt referenced the Federal Reserve’s most recent Survey of Consumer Finances, which is full of fascinating data about which households are the most likely to be in debt.
Overall, 46.1 percent of American households reported holding debt on credit cards. But a look at who is [...]
December 22, 2009 – 4:20 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.
I was recently reviewing the Survey of Consumer Finances, published earlier this year using data from 2007. I thought it was interesting that only 46.2 percent of American households reported having credit-card debt, [...]
December 18, 2009 – 5:40 pm
If you’re one of the millions of people who will be boarding a plane in the coming week, you should probably know that you’ve paid an extra $20 for the privilege of going through airport hell over the holiday season.
The four biggest carriers levied a holiday air-travel surcharge – labeled “miscellaneous surcharge” on your e-ticket [...]
December 15, 2009 – 5:45 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.
If you’re a small-business owner, you’ll want to pay close attention to today’s column. You may just qualify for one of the following deductions, which could save you major money on your taxes [...]
December 10, 2009 – 4:12 pm
With the holiday season upon us, most shoppers will be putting the finishing touches on their shopping in the next couple of weeks. We’ve shown in the past that shopping provides an opportunity for money management through assessing costs and budgeting money.
An Associated Press article today notes that the economic downturn opens up an extra [...]
