Half a grand to fix the brakes
So, we’re heading out of town for the weekend. We’ll be driving the wife’s car so you can imagine my delight when she called me on the way home from work to tell me that her car is making a bad squeeking noise.
So now it’s Friday night and I have to find someone to [...]
Kids and Credit Cards
A recent study by the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program showed the number of 18- to 24-year-olds declaring bankruptcy has increased 96 percent in the last ten years. Credit payment problems are one of the key reasons younger people file for bankruptcy. According to the CARE report, Bad credit can negatively [...]
Top Ten Tax Deductions for Owning a Home
They say owning a home is the American dream, and borrowing to pay for one is a taxpayer’s dream. Having recently purchased my first home, I was interested in the tax benefits now available to me. Here are the top ten:
Money Camp For Kids
There are countless summer camps out there. Summer camps that teach survival skills are pretty common, but what about a camp that teaches financial survival? Teens have a lot to learn. Only half of high school students in a recent survey correctly answered questions about saving, budgeting and retirement.
Money camps are growing in [...]
Yahoo beats Google in finances
Although when it was launched in March it drew a lot of attention, Google Finance has not yet come to surpass Yahoo Finance or MSN, according to Hitwise. The statistics show that Yahoo is the leader in Web-finance domain with 34.9 percent share of the market, as of the week ending June 10, 2006. The [...]
