August 31, 2010 – 1:51 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’re probably not thinking about tax season right now, but fall is a great time to revisit your tax planning strategies. Here are a few tips to make the most of your [...]
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August 10, 2010 – 5:15 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 things get really tight, it’s important to know what your options are to get you through a bumpy ride. This week, we help you make a plan for how to make [...]
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. To lure back-to-school shoppers into the mall, many states are offering a sales-tax holiday this weekend, saving consumers money on big-ticket purchases like computers, software, books, apparel, and footwear. Last year, the [...]
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 unemployed at the moment, we don’t have to tell you that the situation out there is pretty grim. But you’re not alone: The Senate passed a bill last week extending [...]
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 the siren calls and you are tempted to spend big on a purchase, consider that certain used goods can stretch your dollar much farther for the same value. What items should [...]
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. Making retirement saving a priority is the recognition that it’s easier to go without now (when you’re young and able-bodied) than at the end of your life when your options are fewer. [...]
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. 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 [...]
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. There are hundreds of reasons that smart people put off creating an emergency fund: confidence that a job is secure, being in good health, maybe just feeling lucky. But can you guarantee [...]
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. Congratulations! You’ve been a stellar employee and now you’re being rewarded with a promotion and a raise. But after working so hard for the extra money, you might as well make the [...]
