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 30, 2010 – 2:39 pm
Forget keeping up with the Joneses — in 2010, the worst money mistake you could make is to keep up with the Kardashians. In mid-November, the celebrity trinity of Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian released the Kardashian Kard, a prepaid debit Mastercard marketed at teens and other fans of the reality television stars. Kim described [...]
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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October 26, 2010 – 1:20 pm
Grammy-winning R&B singer Toni Braxton has filed for bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles in a last-ditch effort to pay off her debts, which she estimates to total between $10 million and $50 million. She claims medical bills to treat a heart condition are behind her drained bank account. However, this isn’t Braxton’s first time in [...]
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 [...]
September 28, 2010 – 1:16 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. You’ve heard of “good debt” and “bad debt,” but if your end goal is to be debt free, you have to just say no to any and all loans. That means you’ll [...]
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September 14, 2010 – 12:22 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. For the first time in history, total student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt in the United States. Borrowers owe almost $850 billion for education, compared with $826.5 billion on credit [...]
