New Financial Education App From Visa
Financial literacy in America is currently in a sorry state, and Visa is seeking to improve the financial acumen of both American kids and adults. To this end, they have introduced a free iPhone App titled The Practical Money Skills Calculators. A wide array of features comes along with this app, and it can be [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Are You Making This Credit Card Mistake?
Savings are a great thing and a goal everyone should have in their money strategy. However, there are times when it makes more sense to use money that would be put into savings towards other things, like paying down credit card debt. While many people keep savings and credit card expenses separate in their heads, [...]
Continue reading...27. August 2010
New Bank Rules Require Customer “Opt-In” to Overdraft Protection
You might have noticed that your bank has been bothering you lately with letters, emails, and calls asking you to join their overdraft protection program. You might have thought that most accounts already have overdraft protection. Up until now, they did, but according to new U.S. laws taking effect this summer, banks have to get [...]
Continue reading...24. August 2010
Incremental Habit Changes for Money
One of the largest challenges of turning around a tough financial situation is the size of the task. When everything is a mess, it is hard to see anything but a towering mountain of debt, expenses, and numbers that sound completely unrealistic. Breaking everything down into smaller pieces is the best way around this sense [...]
Continue reading...21. August 2010
Do a Dry Run Before a Big Financial Decision
Too many people get into financial trouble by not thinking through the consequences of major decisions. To avoid this, try living through the consequences rather than just thinking about them before making a big decision in the future. What this means is setting up a trial run of the financial consequences of big decisions to [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2010
Being Honest With Yourself About Money
The complex nature of today’s financial world can make it easy to get lost in fantasy and not understand the financial realities we face. Credit cards allow us to accumulate purchases and seemingly only have to pay a small portion at the end of the month. A lack of savings does not seem like a [...]
Continue reading...15. August 2010
Put Savings On Autopilot
It is easy for us to say we want to save more, but it is a different story to put your money where your mouth is. Too often it is a struggle once we have a full paycheck in our hands to do the right thing and avoid needless spending. To take this issue off [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2010
What Are the Real Ramifications Of Bad Credit?
The high unemployment rate and foreclosure crisis are serving to hurt the credit scores of millions of Americans. Your credit score is a guage of how lenders view you as a credit risk, and traditionally bad credit was akin to the scarlet letter as illustrated by Nathaniel Hawthorne. However, with so many Americans suffering foreclosures [...]
Continue reading...9. August 2010
The Best Cities in the US For Job Seekers
The current national unemployment rate is approaching 10%. In many areas, it is already much higher than that. Experts advise that this “jobless recovery” might continue for some time, and those seeking jobs are now commonly having to expand their geographic horizons. To highlight this current trend of moving where the jobs are, Kiplinger Finance [...]
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