September 20, 2011 – 10:32 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. There are a million articles on how to save more money, but how many of them contain advice you can actually use? We distilled the best advice we’ve ever gotten into five [...]
September 13, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Being a personal-finance aficionado, I always click on those articles that promise to help cut the fat from your budget. Most recently, I was intrigued by the idea of RealSimple.com’s “24 Hours of Savings” article for finding ways to trim your spending throughout the day. However, it’s disappointing that the bulk of the advice seems [...]
August 16, 2011 – 4:05 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. At the beginning of the summer, we brought you our tips on finding your first apartment. Now it’s time to make your space your own. Read on for our advice for doing [...]
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. Maybe you’ve just graduated and need to find a new place to live, or perhaps it’s time to say adios to your roommates and get a place of your own. Moving can [...]
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 [...]
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. Building wealth is only one side of the coin of getting rich; the other side is keeping what you have. And there are a number of ways you can do that, but [...]
If you caught our new billboard in New York this week or are just new to Econ4U, we have some great resources to help you make a budget — whether it’s your first or your twenty-first. Here’s a crash course in parsing your paycheck and making the most of what you earn: It won’t take [...]
April 19, 2011 – 12:54 pm
As you undoubtedly already know, the deadline for filing your 2010 taxes was yesterday. But if you’re reality-television rockers Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, it was also a good day to pay taxes for 2008 and 2009. Better late than never! On April 4, the IRS put liens on the Osbournes’ two Los Angeles-area mansions to [...]
Ever wonder which industries are the most profitable? The answers may surprise you. No shock here — finance is far and away the winner, with closed-end equity funds reporting a profit margin of 81%. That means that for every dollar an equity firm earns in revenue, it spends only 19 cents on the costs of [...]
January 11, 2011 – 1:59 pm
Val Kilmer may have played Iceman in Top Gun, but he’s not about to outmaneuver the taxman for the second time. In April 2010, Kilmer settled a $538,858 tax debt with the IRS. But that wasn’t all he owed to the feds, because in November, the IRS filed a new lien — worth $498,165 — [...]
