Ever wonder which industries are the most profitable? The answers may surprise you. No shock here — finance is far and away the winner, with closed-end equity funds reporting a profit margin of 81%. That means that for every dollar an equity firm earns in revenue, it spends only 19 cents on the costs of [...]
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. Even if you’ve never taken Economics 101, you probably innately grasp how a few key principles work. Here are a few of the most common: Supply and demand is the most fundamental [...]
January 4, 2011 – 6:05 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. 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 [...]
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December 28, 2010 – 1:26 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. After losing weight and getting fit, going on a financial diet is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions that people make come January 1. But rather than bite off more [...]
December 21, 2010 – 2:34 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. According to a recent poll by Consumer Reports, a whopping 13.6 million Americans are still paying off the debt they incurred from last year’s holiday shopping. To keep yourself out of that [...]
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December 7, 2010 – 3:55 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. Somewhere between your SAT results and your cholesterol levels, your credit score becomes the most important number to govern how your life turns out. There are several factors that go into calculating your [...]
November 9, 2010 – 5:57 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. Browse Amazon.com and you’ll find thousands of personal-finance guides in publication. But not all reading material is geared toward young people who are just starting out and don’t have a complex stock [...]
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November 2, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Have you voted today? If not, the following three facts about how Election Day may have an impact on the economy (and on your finances in particular) could be the nudge you need to get to the polls before they close in a few hours. Stocks and commodities have steadily rallied for the past two [...]
October 19, 2010 – 3:57 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. When you’re a little short and need to come up with some cash within 24 hours, what are your options? We look at the five most common scenarios and analyze which ones [...]
October 5, 2010 – 12:28 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. Gossip Girl and Animal House notwithstanding, college students are usually a lot smarter than their parents give them credit for. But with personal finance education so woefully lacking at the high-school and [...]
