This article in last weekend’s New York Times Magazine led me to NetWorthIQ, a website where users can anonymously log their assets, income, and debts to illustrate a complete net-worth picture. Members can update their holdings monthly to automatically produce graphs and compile data that track the trajectory of their net worth over time. The benefits [...]
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 [...]
March 23, 2010 – 10:48 am
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. Whether you’re a small-business owner who works out of the house or a salaried employee who wants to enjoy a corporate perk, working from home is becoming de rigeur for more workers [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
October 29, 2009 – 11:27 am
Imagine you’re standing on a street corner in New York City, hand raised to hail a cab. Two cabs pull up to vie for your business; a beat-up late 60s sub-compact with no air conditioning, and a brand new mid-size sedan, with working air conditioner and an electronic meter. It’s not hard to pick which [...]
October 13, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Blogger G.E. Miller from 20SomethingFinance.com has launched a new website to help young people control their spending. MicroFrugality.com promises useful tips geared toward a younger audience of budgeters. Miller writes: This blog will be all about the most controllable part of the personal finance equation – your expenses – and how you can dominate them! [...]
September 22, 2009 – 4:55 pm
The nonprofit Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) just put out its 2009-10 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard, which ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia according to the job, education, wealth-building, and homeownership opportunities afforded to families. Each state was assigned a letter grade based on their performance on 92 policy and outcome measures [...]
Everyone knows that people in the banking, real-estate, and retail industries are likely to be looking for work these days. But the newest profession to fall victim to the recession? Child care. A columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle is balking at the high cost of finding a competent babysitter so she can enjoy a night [...]
