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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the home-buying process, the first question you must answer is “how much house can I afford?” And in an effort to determine that amount responsibly, you may have googled for a calculator like this one on CNNMoney.com, which will tell you that you can spend between 28% and 36% of your gross income on [...]
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Last October, R&B singer Toni Braxton filed for bankruptcy — for the second time in 12 years. The court determined she owed her creditors — among them Tiffany & Co., Neiman Marcus, and the Four Seasons — between $10 million and $50 million in unpaid debts. Now Braxton has a reality television show ready to [...]
We’ve written before about unintended consequences and banking restrictions or consumer credit. But there are plenty of other places where they show up. What if the new health-care law — meant by lawmakers to reduce medical costs for Americans — actually increased them for the average family’s household budget? An article in the Wall Street Journal [...]
It may not be as big as the half-million tax lien that the IRS filed against Val Kilmer in January, but yet another movie star is finding himself in trouble with the taxman. And they’ve made him an offer he can’t refuse. Gossip website TMZ.com reports that the Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against Pacino last [...]
January 19, 2011 – 1:05 pm
Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year, is coming up on January 24. How was it calculated? Here’s the official formula, courtesy of the U.K.’s Mental Health Foundation: According to the scientists who developed it, “The model was broken down using six immediately identifiable factors; weather (W), debt (d), time since Christmas [...]
January 4, 2011 – 6:05 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. 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 [...]
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