Get smart with your money
3 Simple Tricks That Can Help You Build Good Credit
Improving your score a little bit at a time.
4 Ways Rising Interest Rates Will Affect Your Investments
Your savings accounts will benefit.
Why Your Credit Scores at the Three Bureaus Are All Different
Understanding the differences.
How Do Dealers Set Car Prices?
What you should know before heading into the dealership.
For a nation that needs more college graduates, we seem oddly hellbent on discouraging as many people as possible from getting degrees.
We have not been able to contain the ever-rising cost, simplify needlessly complicated financial aid forms or protect lower-income aspirants from the for-profit colleges that want to fleece them. Then there are all the media stories questioning the worth of a college degree.
The latest headlines, prompted by a multiyear survey on attitudes toward college conducted by pollster Gallup and Purdue University (bit.ly/1N8ByY6), provide breathtaking examples
“Less than half of recent grads think college was worth the cost.”
“Just half of graduates say their education was worth the cost.”
“Recent grads doubt college’s worth.”
In my latest for Reuters, why everyone needs post-secondary training.
And in my latest for MoneyWatch, why chip-enabled credit cards are well worth the hassle.
Today’s top story: TransUnion is about to change the game for those without credit scores. Also in the news: Why managing your money seems terrifying, 12 things you should never do with your money, and money moves to make before the end of the year.
60 Million People Who Don’t Have a Credit Score Could Be in Luck
TransUnion is about to change the credit score game.
8 Reasons Managing Money Seems Terrifying
How to overcome your fears.
12 things you should never do with your money
Never ever.
Make these 10 money moves before 2015 is over
Time to get your year-end finances in order.
Today’s top story: How to estimate your major medical costs. Also in the news: Financial planning for the child-free, steps to take before buying a car, and hacks to winterize your home and cut your heating bills.
How to Predict the Size of Your Next Major Medical Bill
Doing your research can save you from sticker shock.
No Kids? You’re Not Off the Hook for Financial Planning
Steps to take if you’re child-free.
Financial steps to take before buying a car
Prepare yourself for the tricks of the dealership.
Filed A Federal Tax Extension? 7 Money Must-Dos Before October 15
Tick tock…
13 Hacks to Winterize Your Home – and Trim Your Heating Bill
Winter is coming…and not just to Westeros.
Today’s top story: Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. Also in the news: Financial goals for new millennial parents, money mistakes that could derail your retirement, and money moves to make before your 40th birthday.
Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings
Potentially disastrous in more ways than one.
3 Financial Goals for New Millennial Parents
It’s all about the budget.
7 Bad Decisions You Could Make in Your 30s and 40s to Derail Your Retirement
Long term reprecussions.
Money Steps to Take Before Your 40th Birthday
Retirement will be here sooner than you think.
‘Ladders’ Help You Build a Flexible Personal Finance Plan
Rung by rung.
Today’s top story: What you could buy with the money you’re paying in ATM fees. Also in the news: How to fix your investment portfolio by January, what you need to do before retirement, and how to make sure your assets go to the right people when you’re gone.
What you could buy with the money you waste on out-of-network ATM fees
ATM fees have soared.
3 Ways to Fix Your Investment Portfolio Before January
Just a couple of months away.
The 4 Things to Do Before Retirement
How to avoid trouble and have piece of mind.
Your Will Might Not Leave Your Assets to the Person You Intended
Making sure your assets go to the right person.