While we can’t offer you respite from the heat wave oppressing much of the country, we can bring you good news of upcoming sales tax holidays to ease the burden on your back-to-school shopping budget. (Don’t have a household budget? This is a perfect time to create one and educate your kids about what all [...]
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. CDs, money markets, and Roths — oh my. The world of saving for the future is an alphabet soup, but we’ve put together this handy glossary for helping you figure out where [...]
How much money do you save? Maybe you’re someone that dutifully sets aside money from each paycheck. Conversely, maybe you’re someone who has never met a dollar they didn’t want to spend right away. Perhaps you’re somewhere in between these two extremes. If you’re not saving at all, it’s time to start. If you are [...]
Despite the encouraging news that women in their 20s have more than made up the salary gap — with recent census data indicating that single, childless women outearn their male peers by 8 percent — women as a group are light years behind men in retirement savings. Why is that? For starters, as this Fidelity [...]
In May, we brought you some of the lessons that having a summer job teaches teens who are working for the first time in their careers. Now that summer is in full swing, the Christian Science Monitor has some more valuable takeaways from that first job: Getting to know tax forms and direct deposit. Having [...]
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. You probably already know that buying a new car is a fast way to burn through your savings. But if you’re nervous about getting stung on a used car, fear not. Here [...]
This week was the first Personal Finance Online Summit, held on Wednesday to give personal-finance experts the opportunity to discuss with the president the major financial issues affecting both the country at large and individual households on a smaller scale. At the end, President Obama shared the tenets he says he personally lives by. Here it [...]
It’s been a few years since Saturday Night Live produced this skit — and boy, has a lot changed in the global economy since 2007 — but its message will still make anyone interested in personal finance giggle. Starring Steve Martin and Amy Poehler as a frustrated couple in debt, the video hawks a free [...]
A new survey just published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 50 percent of U.S. respondents faced with a hypothetical emergency couldn’t come up with $2,000 within 30 days. That’s not encouraging, America. While funding an emergency account can seem like a low priority compared with paying monthly expenses, having access to [...]
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 [...]
