• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Ask Liz Weston

Get smart with your money

  • About
  • Liz’s Books
  • Speaking
  • Disclosure
  • Contact

Liz's Blog

Friday’s need-to-know money news

July 13, 2018 By Liz Weston

Today’s top story: Getting by on the average retirement income. Also in the news: Tips on back-to-school shopping, how to profit from someone else’s financial mistake, and how to decode your credit card bill.

Could You Get By On the Average Retirement Income?
Where does that income come from?

Cross Items Off Your Back-to-School List With These Tips
Summer is almost over.

How to Profit From Someone Else’s Financial Mistake
Saving on someone else’s purchases.

Decoding Your Credit Card Bill
Understanding the terms.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: back-to-school shopping, credit card bills, financial mistakes, Retirement, retirement income

Thursday’s need-to-know money news

July 12, 2018 By Liz Weston

Today’s top story: Intern with a 401(k)? Here’s how to make it pay. Also in the news: 6 big ways credit can affect your life, helping your kid start a business, and a new game show pays off winner’s student loans.

Intern With a 401(k)? Here’s How to Make It Pay
Make long-term gains from short-term work.

6 Big Ways Your Credit Can Affect Your Life
Where you live, work, and play.

Can You Afford to Help Your Kid Start a Business?
Beyond the lemonade stand.

New game show ‘Paid Off’ offers chance to eliminate student loan debt
Welcome to 2018.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: 401(k), Credit, game show, internships, kids and money, Paid Off, Student Loans

Tuesday’s need-to-know money news

July 10, 2018 By Liz Weston

Today’s top story: This could be the biggest blow to your retirement. Also in the news: How one couple ditched their debt, why good credit is essential when remodeling a home, and how to apply for a credit card with no credit.

This Could Be the Biggest Blow to Your Retirement
The battle with healthcare costs.

How I Ditched Debt: ‘It Became Like a Game to Us’
One couple’s story.

Remodeling Your Home? Good Credit Offers a Strong Foundation
The better the credit, the better the offers.

How to Apply for a Credit Card With No Credit Score
Exploring the options.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: Credit Cards, Credit Score, debt, healthcare costs, home remodel, retirement savings, tips

Can you afford to help your kid start a business?

July 10, 2018 By Liz Weston

Amazon. Chipotle. GoPro.

These household-name businesses were launched thanks to investments by the founders’ parents. But parents also have sunk plenty of money into their offsprings’ doomed enterprises, sometimes endangering their retirements and family relationships in the process.

In my latest for the Associated Press, how not to offer money you can’t afford to lose.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: families and money, Investing

Monday’s need-to-know money news

July 9, 2018 By Liz Weston

Today’s top story: TSA-Approved ways to cut the airport screening line. Also in the news: How to talk retirement with your spouse, the most and least affordable areas in the country, and things to consider before co-signing a student loan.

TSA-Approved Ways to Cut the Airport Screening Line
Is TSA pre-check worth the price?

How to Talk Retirement With Your Spouse
One of the most important conversations you’ll ever have.

Home Affordability Watch, Q1: California Buyers, Keep Dreamin’
The most and least affordable areas in the country.

Piggybacking on good credit: Things to consider before co-signing a student loan
A few things to think about.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: co-signing, couples and money, most/least affordable places to live, pre-check, Retirement, Student Loans, TSA, TSA screening

Friday’s need-to-know money news

July 6, 2018 By Liz Weston

Today’s top story: How your credit card can help you save on summer travel. Also in the news: 7 steps to save on hardwood flooring costs, how not to be a knucklehead on Venmo, and how to boost your benefits at work.

How Your Credit Card Can Help You Save on Summer Travel
Using credit card rewards to pay for vacation.

7 Steps to Save on Hardwood Flooring Costs
How to keep your budget grounded.

How Not to Be a Knucklehead on Venmo
Don’t make things uncomfortable.

Boosting your benefits
Don’t leave money on the table.

Filed Under: Liz's Blog Tagged With: credit card rewards, Credit Cards, hardwood flooring, summer travel, Venmo, work benefits

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 210
  • Page 211
  • Page 212
  • Page 213
  • Page 214
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 479
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Search

Copyright © 2025 · Ask Liz Weston 2.0 On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in