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 have a tablet or a smartphone, it’s easy to spend too much money every month on downloading new, fun apps to entertain you. But what if those apps could actually [...]
This opinion column from the Kansas City Star shows such sensible advice for teens seeking out their first job that we couldn’t say it any better than writer Steve Rosen did: Every year around this time, I think about my first summer job and the money lessons I learned – mostly the hard way. I [...]
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. Building wealth is only one side of the coin of getting rich; the other side is keeping what you have. And there are a number of ways you can do that, but [...]
April 12, 2011 – 10:34 am
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 those of you who are preparing to graduate in the next month or two, with a little luck that means you’re starting your first professional job. And if your entry-level salary [...]
In the home-buying process, the first question you must answer is “how much house can I afford?” And in an effort to determine that amount responsibly, you may have googled for a calculator like this one on CNNMoney.com, which will tell you that you can spend between 28% and 36% of your gross income on [...]
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We’ve written before about unintended consequences and banking restrictions or consumer credit. But there are plenty of other places where they show up. What if the new health-care law — meant by lawmakers to reduce medical costs for Americans — actually increased them for the average family’s household budget? An article in the Wall Street Journal [...]
February 8, 2011 – 4:32 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. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, men don’t have to be reminded that dating can be really expensive. But it doesn’t have to be. Here are five ways to avoid common relationship [...]
January 19, 2011 – 1:05 pm
Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year, is coming up on January 24. How was it calculated? Here’s the official formula, courtesy of the U.K.’s Mental Health Foundation: According to the scientists who developed it, “The model was broken down using six immediately identifiable factors; weather (W), debt (d), time since Christmas [...]
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 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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