Interesting The National Debt Explained The national debt level of the United States is a measurement of how much the federal government owes its creditors.
Interesting How Inflation Affects Your Cost of Living Up until very recently, inflation had not been talked about, and for good reason.
Interesting What to Know Before a Hospital Visit Just as with financial planning, a hospital visit is easier to manage if you prepare in advance and understand the process.
Interesting Eight New Amazon Tricks To Save You Some Cash There are quite a few ways to save when shopping with Amazon.
Interesting Lifelong Exercise Adds Up to Big Health Care Savings Becoming more physically active today might help us avoid thousands of dollars in health care costs later, according to a new study of exercise and Medicare claims.
Interesting Twelve Ways To Lower Your Monthly Internet, Cable and Streaming Bills Why pay more than you have to for internet, cable, and streaming?
Interesting What Is the Cheapest Time to Book a Flight? Want to get the cheapest flight possible? You're not alone.
Interesting Guide To Emergency-Proofing Your Finances If you haven't done so already, now is a good time to emergency-proof your finances.
Interesting Five Articles to Refresh Your Financial Literacy Encompassing a broad range of money topics — from balancing a checkbook to developing a household budget and planning for retirement — financial literacy shapes the way we view and handle money.
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 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.
Interesting Don't Get 'Escheated' Out Of Your Money! Unfortunately, the English common law on escheatment has evolved from making sure abandoned property does not go to waste, to making sure the state has another source of income. Avoid unwittingly giving your money to the state.
Interesting Proposed Department Of Labor Rules: How They'll Impact Advisors and Investors In 2016 the U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule requiring just about every professional who deals with retail investors to adhere to a fiduciary standard of practice. Learn what a fiduciary is, and why you would want one.
Interesting Six Things Every College Graduate Needs to Know About Money Just getting started? Beyond the relative safety of college sits the stressful and sometimes messy world of adulthood. Learn how to make the transition from college to career success.
