November 17, 2009 – 6:40 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of Tuesday Top 5, our weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps.
Today we walk you through the all-important credit report, and what to do if you find inaccurate information on it. Your credit report plays a major role in determining your credit score, so it’s [...]
November 10, 2009 – 1:48 pm
Greetings and welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, our weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps.
The deadline for that juicy $8,000 new homebuyer’s credit is rapidly approaching, but how do you know if you’re ready to own a home? Ask yourself the following five questions to [...]
November 3, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, our new weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps.
Today we tell you the five things you need to know if your end goal is retiring a millionaire. Sound like a pipe dream? It’s not if you start early enough.
Think you [...]
October 23, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Are you ever accused of being a cheapskate? If so, you have something in common with Linda Beech, a columnist for The Garden City Telegram, who wrote her latest opinion piece on why she bought a used car (instead of a new one) for her teenage daughter:
Years ago, when I had two small children and my [...]
October 20, 2009 – 2:27 pm
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Tuesday Top 5, our new weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. This week, we show you how to stop putting off one of the most important duties you have to protect your dependents in the event of a tragedy: Writing your will.
You [...]
October 16, 2009 – 3:07 pm
I may be late to the party but I only just learned that Microsoft has discontinued its game-changing Money software. I’ve been using Money for years to track my spending, retirement allotments, taxable investments, and savings accounts all in one tidy package. But unfortunately for me and Microsoft, the advent of free budgeting websites has [...]
October 13, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Blogger G.E. Miller from 20SomethingFinance.com has launched a new website to help young people control their spending.
MicroFrugality.com promises useful tips geared toward a younger audience of budgeters. Miller writes:
This blog will be all about the most controllable part of the personal finance equation – your expenses – and how you can dominate them!
The vision is [...]
October 9, 2009 – 11:51 am
National Save for Retirement Week is coming up (October 18-24) to urge Americans to beef up their savings accounts for the long haul. Those who have the longest amount of time before retiring stand to gain the most by investing early (thanks to the wonders of compounding interest), so it’s particularly important that young people [...]
September 25, 2009 – 12:37 pm
On Tuesday, I blogged about one group’s state-by-state national scorecard of financial health (released this week), and it got me thinking: Why do more people not just move to where the jobs are? It seems like a no-brainer if you live in an economically depressed area to simply go somewhere with better opportunities.
Of course, there are [...]
September 18, 2009 – 3:43 pm
The stock market has had a couple of good weeks in a row but unless you’re invested in it, the recovery isn’t doing you much good. If you haven’t a clue about where to start in the stock market, Morningstar.com’s Investing Classroom offers a bunch of free online tutorials to teach you the basics about [...]
