On the final day of Financial Literacy Month, now would be a good time to explain the proverb “penny wise but pound foolish.” So many other personal-finance blogs focus on ways to save money on things like gas, energy bills, and the ubiquitous $4 latte. But if you’re saddled with a huge car payment, struggling [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
November 20, 2009 – 1:29 pm
Black Friday is only a week away, and for avid bargain-hunters, it nearly ranks as a holiday in its own right. Retailers count on the Christmas shopping season to comprise the bulk of their sales for the year — and in 2009, when retail sales have been particularly dismal, Black Friday will be more important [...]
October 27, 2009 – 10:15 am
The clothing company H&M has made a name for itself providing high-fashion clothing at prices that most people can afford. (BTW – I am not paid by H&M; this is what my wife has told me.) On occasion, H&M enlists the services of an otherwise exclusive designer, to produce a line specifically for the store. [...]
October 23, 2009 – 9:15 am
In case you missed them, here are a few of our most popular recent posts. Be sure to check out two of our new recurring themes, the Tuesday Top 5 and Famous Financial Flubs. Why isn’t college LESS expensive during a recession? Tuesday Top 5: How to Write a Will Avoid the Freshman Financial Fifteen [...]
Why is there a kidney shortage? Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker claims it’s because there’s no market for them, since the buying and selling of organs is illegal. Or put differently, when the maximum amount of money you can get in return for a kidney is $0, the demand is always going to be higher than the supply.
A credit card can be a convenient way to manage your expenses, or an expensive way to rack up debt and exorbitant fees. If the U.S. Senate passes the credit card reform bill it’s considering this week, that could change. The bill would overhaul a lot of the regulations governing credit card agreements, and has [...]
April 15th has come and gone, but taxes are still very much in the news these days. The passage of a new $3.5 trillion budget (and the projected $1.75 trillion deficit) has a lot of people talking about the taxes we’ll need to pay all of this money back. In that vein, I was checking [...]
Are the kids of 2009 like the kids of 1929? It seems like in some ways they are.
