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. We’re all for the occasional splurge — provided, of course, that you can still pay your bills at the end of the month. But there are a few indulgences that are completely [...]
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 [...]
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. In this economy, it’s easier to cut expenses than to increase your income. Need an instant budget makeover? These five tips will put money in your pocket nearly immediately. Check it out: Look [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pamela Anderson has been famous for her, well, physical assets for decades, but it turns out she isn’t as well endowed in the financial department. According to People magazine, Los Angeles County records show she owes more than $1.1 million to creditors: According to the documents, five different construction companies have filed liens against her [...]
At the risk of sounding smug, sometimes I feel like I’ve mastered the credit card game. I get 1 percent cash back on my rewards card. And because I pay it off in full every month and it has no annual fee, my credit card bank is essentially paying me a dividend on top of [...]
Overdraft fees netted nearly $37 billion for banks in 2008, and with so many major financial institutions like Bank of America hurting for cash this year, consumers can expect an assortment of banking charges to climb even higher in 2009. It’s a double whammy for money-strapped Americans because the people most likely to get slapped with [...]
You know those “Important Notices” you get in the mail from your bank and credit card companies? The ones filled with 25 pages of indecipherable fine print? Well, it turns out that sometimes there’s actually important information mixed in with all the legalese. At least if you want to avoid paying $119.40 in annual fees. [...]
Washington Post columnist Michelle Singletary recently wrote about an important change in the rules on overdraft protection that will apply to any consumer who uses an ATM or debit card. The Federal Reserve has proposed giving bank customers the right to choose whether to enroll in overdraft protection for ATM withdrawals or debit card purchases. Opting out [...]
