If you’re planning to retire this year, start putting your finances in order now. That’s a given. But retirement isn’t just about money. It’s about how you will spend your time. So you might also start thinking hard about …
5 Tricks To Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
A new year, a new batch of resolutions! Alas, these promises to ourselves rarely produce long-lasting results. (Depending on the source, nearly nine in 10 resolutions don’t take.) Worse, failed resolutions could be harmful if …
Ouch — Average Credit Card APR Now Tops 15 Percent
We’ve started 2012 on a troubling financial note: credit card interest rates are hovering near record highs.
Verizon Wireless to Charge $2 for Some Online Payments
Updated: 6:45 p.m., Dec. 30.
Why should banks have all the fun? We can only imagine that’s what Verizon Wireless executives asked themselves before deciding to hit customers with a $2 fee — for paying their bill via a one-time …
Where President Obama Vacations in Hawaii
President Obama and his family are back in his birth state for their annual winter beach bash. Although they are in a different rental this year than the Plantation Estates home in which they stayed in 2008, ’09 and ’10, they
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10 New Year’s Resolutions For Your Budget
So you’re going to lose 15 pounds, organize your closets and stop biting your fingernails. Great — now how are you going to improve your personal finances in 2012? Having a budget for your personal or household expenses is a great place to start, but New Year’s resolutions are about improving on the good habits you’ve already …
5 Myths About Retirement Homes
Developers have made great strides in recent years, presenting seniors with vastly more appealing alternatives than the traditional nursing home. Still, misconceptions about retirement villages abound and may lead …
5 Banking New Year’s Resolutions
This year was a tumultuous one for banking: Occupy Wall Street protests around the country focused Americans’ anger against the financial industry, while widespread outrage over banks’ attempts to charge fees for debit card use …
Warning: Don’t Mix Alcohol and Online Shopping
Drunk dialing, drunk texts, drunk Facebooking … there are many things one shouldn’t do while drunk. Add online shopping to the list.
Skittish Market’s Winners and Losers Point the Way
A highly volatile stock market may have given you whiplash in 2011. But as the year draws to a close, the final numbers don’t look so dramatic: the S&P 500 is poised to end the year almost exactly where it began, and about as …
4 Ways to Start Your Kids with Credit
Most parents with heavy credit card debt want their kids to avoid the same mistake. But they are not sure how to coach them and, according to a new survey, would love for credit card management to be a required class in high school.
5 Events that Really Mattered for Housing in 2011 – and Beyond
Government, the mortgage industry and forces of nature all shook the housing market in 2011. They had both an immediate impact and slow-burning effects, setting the stage for a bumpy 2012 with more foreclosures, political battles …