You can blame James “King of the World” Cameron if you like, but the recent slate of movies in 3-D — from Avatar and Alice in Wonderland to How to Train Your Dragon and Clash of the Titans — has meant more theaters are installing 3-D projectors. And they’re passing the cost of the new [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
With banks and credit card companies collecting more money than ever from customers, the Center for Economic and Entrepreneurial Literacy reminds consumers that “economic illiteracy is at the heart of our current economic crisis.” A CEEL survey conducted in December of 2008 found that a majority of those surveyed were unable to answer simple questions [...]
The FTC has great resources including a Scam Watch that takes a useful look at a lot of the mortgage rescue scams that are abounding right now.
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You may have seen us on the Today Show this morning, braving some chilly weather to promote Financial Literacy Month. We gave Matt Lauer an Econ4U t-shirt, which we fully expect him to wear on the air tomorrow.
The editor over at Kiplinger Magazine, Janet Bodnar, has a great column this week about keeping it simple when discussing personal finance with kids. And it doesn’t hurt that she used data from Econ4U’s most recent survey to make her point! No matter how little you think you know about money, you still know more [...]
February 24, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Ask Dave Ramsey. Dave’s nationally syndicated radio show helps Americans who are interested in getting out of debt. Yesterday he discussed Econ4U’s survey which showed that 35% of Americans admit that they don’t have a plan to get out of credit card debt by the end of 2009.
