November 16, 2011 – 10:40 am
We already knew that Girl Scouts had good business sense – who hasn’t been sold a box of their tasty cookies at a high school or grocery store parking lot? But it turns out the girls take their economics seriously. Daily Finance has the details: A new curriculum of merit badges proposes to teach 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 a parent or plan to be, you are in a position shape the money habits your children will have, even as adults. Beyond living by example, there are a few ways to make sure [...]
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. This year, it’s never too early for teens to be thinking about their summer job opportunities. A new analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that teen unemployment has skyrocketed in [...]
February 22, 2011 – 5:34 pm
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria has filed a Chapter 11 petition in bankruptcy court on behalf of the restaurant and nightclub she owns in Las Vegas. Beso and its upstairs nightclub Eve opened in the CityCenter at the MGM Resort in December 2009, but a little more than a year later, the property lists $2.5 [...]
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. Unfortunately, summer 2010 is turning out to be a tough job market for teenagers and unskilled workers, but there are still ways for young people to spend the summer productively. Here are [...]
April is not just tax season, it’s also Financial Literacy Month. So now is the perfect time to test your money knowledge on one of our 10 quizzes. Think you’re an expert on entrepreneurship? How savvy are you on saving? Can you cut it when it comes to credit cards? Or if you’re really up to [...]
March 23, 2010 – 10:48 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. Whether you’re a small-business owner who works out of the house or a salaried employee who wants to enjoy a corporate perk, working from home is becoming de rigeur for more workers [...]
January 26, 2010 – 6:04 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. This week, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote about what the country really needs instead of yet another economic stimulus package: What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, [...]
December 15, 2009 – 5:45 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. If you’re a small-business owner, you’ll want to pay close attention to today’s column. You may just qualify for one of the following deductions, which could save you major money on your [...]
