Get smart with your money
Today’s top story: The average American saves less than 5%. Also in the news: Strategies for lowering your closing costs, how to make money with YouTube, and should credit card perks coax you to go steady with a bank?
Average American Saves Less Than 5%
See how you stack up.
Strategies for Lowering Your Closing Costs
Saving as much as you can.
How to Make Money With YouTube
Monetizing your cat videos.
Should credit card perks coax you to go steady with a bank?
A one-sided love affair?
Today’s top story: Brace yourself for higher car insurance rates. Also in the news: 3 tax errors that could be hiding in your paycheck, how to make sense of your credit card number, and how other people’s weddings are preventing millennials from buying homes.
Brace Yourself for Higher Car Insurance Rates
Get ready to pay more.
See If These 3 Tax Errors Are Hiding in Your Paycheck
You could be in for a surprise come tax time.
How to Make Sense of Your Credit Card Number
Some credit card trivia.
Another reason millennials can’t afford homes? Other people’s weddings
Today’s top story: Don’t get taken by government grant scams. Also in the news: When you should and shouldn’t tap your Roth IRA, using your credit cards to pay for child care, and a report that finds many American teens lack basic financial skills.
Don’t Get Taken by Government Grant Scams
The government doesn’t want to give you money.
When You Should — and Shouldn’t — Tap Your Roth IRA
Let your interest rate be your guide.
Should You Use Credit Cards to Pay for Child Care?
Depends on the card.
Report finds many American teens lack basic financial skills
Not a good sign.
Today’s top story: How to have healthy finances. Also in the news: Credit cards to pack for your road trip, learning about a Solo 401(k), and ten ridiculously easy ways to save $300 a month.
Want Healthy Finances? Start Here
Getting your finances in shape.
Credit Card Perks to Pack for Your Road Trip
Getting the biggest bang for your buck.
What Is a Solo 401(k)?
A retirement plan for the self-employed.
10 ridiculously easy ways to save $300 a month
You can do it!
Today’s top story: How teachers can ace retirement without Social Security. Also in the news: Why credit cards are serving big restaurant rewards, making sure your spending personality matches your credit cards, and the one mistake that can cost millennials millions.
Teachers: Here’s How to Ace Retirement Without Social Security
It varies from state to state.
Why Credit Cards Are Serving Big Restaurant Rewards
Everyone has to eat.
Does your spending personality match your credit cards?
Make sure you’re earning rewards you’ll actually use.
This one mistake can cost millennials millions
Stop avoiding the stock market.
Today’s top story: How financing a vacation with a credit card could ruin your fun. Also in the news: How immigrants can plan a comfortable retirement, how one immigrant started her financial journey in the U.S., and what to do if your defined benefit pension plan is frozen.
How Financing a Vacation with Credit Cards Could Ruin Your Fun
When the bill comes due.
How Immigrants Can Plan a Comfortable Retirement
Discovering which benefits you’re entitled to.
How One Immigrant Started Her Financial Journey in the U.S.
Studying personal finance is key.
Retirement: What to do if your defined benefit pension plan is frozen
Time for a back-up plan.