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Tuesday Top 5: Money-Wasting Habits to Break

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 [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Financial Resolutions to Make in 2011

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 [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Knowing Your Credit Score

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 [...]

What Is Quantitative Easing and What Does It Mean for You?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k[/youtube] You may have heard the words “quantitative easing” or “QE II” thrown around on the news (and even here at Econ4U). But if you don’t fully understand the economic ramifications of this concept — involving the Federal Reserve’s plans to print an additional $600 billion to buy government bonds back from banks and other [...]

The Economics of Election Day

Have you voted today? If not, the following three facts about how Election Day may have an impact on the economy (and on your finances in particular) could be the nudge you need to get to the polls before they close in a few hours. Stocks and commodities have steadily rallied for the past two [...]

Tuesday Top 5: How to Come Up With $100 Fast

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 [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Best Websites for Sticking to a Budget

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. Intimidated by the idea of a budget? The Web has a host of great resources to guide you to making — and sticking to — a budget that works for you and [...]

Tuesday Top 5: The Worst Financial Decisions a College Student Can 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. Gossip Girl and Animal House notwithstanding, college students are usually a lot smarter than their parents give them credit for. But with personal finance education so woefully lacking at the high-school and [...]

Tuesday Top 5: Factors That May Affect Your Job Search

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. In a down economy and with so many people looking for work, job seekers should take every precaution to avoid giving employers a reason not to hire them. Make sure your application [...]

Tuesday Top 5: How to Turn Your Car Into a Money Pit

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 246 million cars owned in the United States, so chances are good you have one of them. But next to a house and an education, a car may well be [...]