Summer vacation can be a stressful for time for all parents. What to do with the kids? How to keep them busy?
While it is tempting to splurge on your tax refund, dedicating a significant portion of your refund to savings is a great way to establish and/or strengthen your personal economy to weather financial emergencies. Start stretching your tax refund by doing the following.
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but when it comes to deciding who should manage the money in your household here on planet Earth, women may have the edge.
If you are like most taxpayers, then your stress level creeps higher as tax day approaches. The biggest reason for the stress is that many adults are clueless about where they stand financially.
Somewhere between abject poverty and those who can afford to go out to dinner (or lunch, or breakfast), there's an invisible little segment of society called, We Who Are Very Broke.
I've blown off plenty of good advice. I thought I was smart and could figure things out on my own. Wrong. I'm finally starting to learn.
While there have always been wide fluctuations in the markets -- booms and busts -- what is novel has been the system of financial rewards for key participants that evolved during the late 20th century.
I understand you get up at 6:30 a.m. to study the markets. What do you learn that is not already in the public domain and has been analyzed by millions of other investors all over the world?
Unless your income and filing status remain the same year after year, your tax situation is always changing. The question, "should I file my own taxes or hire a pro?" is a dilemma that should be revisited every year.
You'll begin to understand that energy is currency. When your energy has an essence of abundance, you greatly increase your capacity to receive more abundance.
Right now, more and more of us are realizing that the only thing standing between us and a dinner of catfood is the ability to work for as long as we can.
As stagnant wages and high unemployment continue to eat away at most household incomes, it's no surprise that the Journal of Clinical Psychology reports that financial savings figures as the third most popular New Year's goal this year.
It’s that time again when jobs open up across Washington and the big shuffle starts: People on Wall Street angle for key economic policymaking jobs,...
If you are going to chart the progress of your weight loss during a diet, you must first start by facing the music and stepping on the scale. The same applies for your finances.
By now, you've probably had a Girl Scout, Brownie or Daisy pounding on your door, hawking her fat-laden guilty pleasures. It's hard enough to say no to those mini entrepreneurs, but what happens when the cookie pusher is actually an overachieving mom and happens to be your friend?
Personal finance expert Suze Orman broached the difficult subject of dealing with finances during and after a divorce when she visited me on Mondays W...
Every investor is familiar with the legal caveat, "Past performance is not a guarantee of future results." But the warning is apt for business owners and credit officers evaluating potential trade partners' creditworthiness, too.
Now that you're no longer employed, it's important to re-adjust your budget and start cutting back on your consumption. If you continue to live your pre-unemployment lifestyle, your debt can quickly get out of hand and become increasingly difficult to pay off.
I figured if Congress isn't so worried about this terminal Fiscal Cliff and is planning their vacations, I'm going to take mine, too.
By connecting your financial actions to what gives you the deepest sense of both meaning and pleasure, you will find greater fulfillment in your relationship to money.
We live and work in a day and time where for most people, money is scarce. Should the lack of it continue to be a liability for so many?
The prospect of someone -- me -- who works full-time for a middle-class salary and has no family money, having to pay child support to someone who has so much family money that he doesn't work, wanders across the border of Ludicrousland and into Heinousville.
Why is it still so difficult to say those four little words? That's the question journalist Veronia Dagher posed recently in the Wall Street Journa...
"Model" evokes a life of glamour: lounging by pools and eating celery sticks. In reality, most models spend their days schlepping to castings they'll be rejected from. They live in model apartments with three other girls, and eat celery for dinner because they can't afford much else.
By Linda Descano, CFA®, President and CEO, Women & Co. and Managing Director and Head of Digital Partnerships, North America Marketing, Citi We've a...
