These four indicators, often overlooked, will help you decide when it’s smart to start buying stocks again.
Credit Card APRs Nearing Record Highs
Listen up, cardholders: Make the most of teaser rates while they last. Credit card issuers are aggressively courting new customers with zero percent introductory APRs and balance transfer rates equally as low, but standard APRs …
3 Electric Cars You Can Buy Soon (And 3 That’ll Blow Your Mind)
For American drivers interested in electric vehicles, the options have been limited. The only true EV currently sold in the marketplace is the Nissan Leaf, and until recently it’s only been available in a handful of states. The …
Bernanke to Investors: Don’t Hold Your Breath for QE3
The message out of Ben Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech: Nothing to see here. Time to move on.
The markets had been clamoring for another round of quantitative easing to give stocks a lift. But Fed chair Bernanke didn’t discuss it, or any of the other blunt tools the central bank has on offer. The Fed “will continue to assess the …
New Tool Uses Webcams to ‘Read’ Credit Cards
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about mobile payments technologies like Square, a little white box that plugs into an iPhone and essentially turns it into a credit card processing tool. Small business owners and entrepreneurs …
How Consumers Fool Themselves Into Thinking They’ve Made Good Purchases
If you think you make purchases because you logically and objectively evaluate the options at hand, then decide based strictly on your personal preferences and individual sense of value, think again. Here are four examples of how …
Confessions of an Accidental Entrepreneur
Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the founder and CEO of Real Life E, a time coaching and training company that empowers individuals who feel overwhelmed and frustrated to feel confident and accomplished through an exclusive Schedule …
Is Pay Per Channel Cable TV Inevitable?
Most consumers like the idea of pay per channel cable TV, in which the customer would select a la carte the channels he actually watches, rather than pay for a bundled service with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of channels that are …
7 Obstacles to Financial Success
Hundreds (thousands?) of new financial books are published each year. Only a handful become best-sellers. As you might expect, a lot of gems fall through the cracks, destined to soon be forgotten. The Quiet Millionaire by Brett …
Even More Credit Scores: Good or Bad For Consumers?
In theory, your credit score should be simple: three digits that correspond to how big of a risk lenders take when they extend credit to you. But in practice, it’s anything but.
New Sallie Mae Book Offers Advice on How to Pay for College
QuitAssist is a website Philip Morris offers to help you quit smoking the cigarettes that they sold you in the first place. And there’s Mohegan Sun’s Responsible Gaming hotline, which helps gambling addicts who throw their money …
What school lunches in Korea tell us about the future of the welfare state
There is an unusual political battle going on in South Korea right now, over, believe it or not, school lunches. The Seoul city council voted to implement a large-scale program to feed every primary and middle school student in the capital – all 850,000 of them – a free lunch every day, at a cost to the government of nearly $380 …
