Interesting The Push to Require Financial Literacy Basic financial skills are generally not taught in a classroom in the United States. As a result, the lack of financial education has led to Americans having inadequate household and retirement savings and high levels of credit card and student loan debt.
Interesting Five Health Tests You Can Take Online With help from the internet, you can gauge your health status at a glance. There are tests for your heart, eyes, and general well-being. Note that these online quizzes are not suitable replacements for a doctor’s opinion.
Interesting What Is Your Money Personality Type? Like almost everything else in life, your response to money is largely dictated by your personality. See how making small changes can often yield big results.
Credit/Debt/Loans Five Ways to Control Emotional Spending For some people, shopping is much more than a pastime - it's actually an addiction called oniomania.
Interesting Ten Promising Job Prospects for 2020 The Bureau of Labor Statistics has determined the occupational fields that will virtually guarantee a job for those graduating in the next few years. Choose your career wisely.
Interesting How Long Will I Live? The average American now lives to 88. Based on 400,000 NIH data samples and a short quiz about your lifestyle, find out what your life expectancy might be.
Interesting Ignore the Financial Media The financial media is omnipresent. Whether it’s hearing about what the Dow did today on your drive home or a talking head pontificating about how the markets are obviously about to tank, we are constantly immersed in a miasma of prognostication.
Interesting Safe Deposit Boxes: Store This, Not That A safe deposit box (or safety deposit box) is an individually secured container — usually a metal box — that lives in the vault of a federally insured bank or credit union. Here's what (and what not) to put in it.
Interesting The Top 5 Financial Mistakes Millennials Make The millennial experience with the 2008 financial crisis may have given them a perspective that can be detrimental to achieving any long-term aspirations they might have. This distorted view may have led many to make any number of mistakes.
Interesting Words of Wisdom Courtesy of Joseph Heller Authors Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. Wisdom ensued: what is really important about wealth.
Interesting Surprise! Millennials Are A Generation Of Savers It appears that Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) are going against stereotype, with more than half of them saving for retirement. As usual, stereotypes can be misleading.