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With the holiday shopping season in full swing, now is the perfect time to have that conversation with your children and discuss the importance of saving, budgeting and setting financial goals.
I know how busy we all are. But if you can find just a few extra minutes each day, and you spend that time by using these quick credit-fixing tips, you'll make significant progress very quickly and you'll feel good about accomplishing these "little" tasks.
As dad was dishing out food to homeless people, he was approached by a nun "What do you do for a living?" "I'm a gambler," replied my father. "Joe, this is the first time we ever had a gambler on THIS side of the table." Problem gambling has pushed a lot of people into poverty.
With remakes being so popular in Hollywood, and with banks being so much in the news this year, it begs the question: Could this film be adapted for today's banking environment?
Sometimes you do everything right -- you work hard, you cut back on spending, you invest for retirement -- but all of your effort seems for naught. What happens when doing all the right things doesn't work?
If this new spirit of competitiveness among banks leads them to expand the loan market, it could stimulate the economy and eventually lead to higher interest rates on savings accounts, CDs, and money market accounts.
If you've had a tough time controlling your spending in the past, there are good reasons why things could be different in 2012.
The end of the year is a great time to look back on the year and assess where some of your biggest "sunk costs" went, in terms of finances, time and energy.
As 2011 closes, world leaders could surely use a few gifts. Here are five presents that, if delivered, would probably be their all-time best -- regardless of whether they ever found a BB gun under the tree.
Did pessimism about the future influence people to abandon the hope of saving for retirement, or did a lack of savings lead to the pessimism? One clue may be in the fact that people over 55 are even more gloomy about the future of the economy than the general population.
One thousand wallets and purses are stolen every two minutes in America. So before you leave the house, read this list of what NOT to keep in your wallet.
Don't let all those tiny lights and tinsel cloud your vision this holiday season. Think sensibly about what a financial union means, and how your marriage could impact your earnings and your nest egg.
With Thanksgiving less than a week away, the holiday shopping season is about to move into high gear. In the past, I've consciously steered clear of h...
Since debt and savings are opposites, you wouldn't expect them to move in the same direction at the same time. However, recent statistics indicate that as America's debt has shrunk, so too have America's savings rates.
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Conscious spending isn't restrictive; it's liberating. It can help you recognize when your spending is aligned with your values, and when it's just being made out of habit.
