Posted August 19, 2009 - 08:01 by Linsey Knerl
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best of Personal Finance roundup. If you've ever wanted to make a million bucks from eating lunch, learn how to raise a $221,000 baby (not from the black market, either), or cook over 4 dozen different ramen dishes, we've got the goods for you!
Posted August 12, 2009 - 12:00 by Xin Lu
Reward checking accounts are currently some of the highest yielding accounts available at FDIC member banks. These accounts currently have yields of up to 6% and that is much higher than yields of 2% to 3% paid by CDs and savings accounts. Here is a quick introduction to what they are and how you can take advantage of these accounts.
Posted August 12, 2009 - 06:00 by Linsey Knerl
Welcome to Wise Bread's Best of Personal Finance roundup. If it’s novel, frugal, or otherwise fantastic, we’re hoping to share it with you each week. This week’s assortment of treats comes to you with advice for junking your car, rocking your career, and brewing your own.
Posted August 11, 2009 - 12:00 by Sarah Winfrey
Though some economists are tentative and a few disagree outright, the majority of people in the know believe that the worldwide recession has hit rock bottom and we are now, slowly but surely, climbing our way out of the financial doldrums and back into prosperity. Now we have to discover a way to walk a tightrope of a middle line—to actively embrace the recovery while still living with the present mess and acknowledging that fact that we might not erase its effects for quite a while.
Posted August 10, 2009 - 12:00 by Philip Brewer
Especially for things people often buy on credit, like a car or a house, there's a tendency to divide the ownership into two periods--while the loan is being paid off, where the item is expensive, and after the loan has been paid off, where the item is free. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of capital costs.
Posted August 7, 2009 - 11:00 by Andrea Dickson
Sell your Twitter account, lose weight and save money, learn to network (really, it helps), clear up your life in 5 minutes, couchsurf around the world, and more.
Posted August 5, 2009 - 05:00 by Adam Baker
Debt limits freedom. It's as simple as that. The process of getting out of debt first starts with acknowledging that it really is a problem. This simple act will radically improve your chances for success and provide a great foundation to execute the specific techniques and strategies later. This is the first post in the "Getting Out Of Debt: The Essentials" series!
Posted August 4, 2009 - 05:00 by Philip Brewer
I got a notice from one of my credit cards a bit ago, announcing that they were raising the interest rate. It's only of theoretical interest to me, of course--I use credit cards for transactions, not to borrow money--but looking at the rate they're charging reminded me that there are really three interest rates.
Posted August 2, 2009 - 09:03 by Andrea Dickson
Stay cool, quit your job, send your kids back to the public education dungeon, learn from metaphors, make money from your crafts, how to exchange Canadian dollars into American greenbacks, want versus need, and the beauty of living without air conditioning. Ha, ha! That last one was a lie, there is no such thing as air conditioning-free happiness.Posted July 31, 2009 - 04:00 by Jabulani Leffall
In order for the economy to turn around it has to hit what so many investment experts and economic forecasters call the "bottom," but what is it, this bottom, what does it look like and with all of this conflicting data, how should we tailor our own spending habits?
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