Chase’s Freedom credit card first became popular when it began offering a $100 bonus for new customers who spent a certain amount of money in three months. Now there’s an additional $100 bonus tempting consumers to sign up.
In Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, Paco Underhill describes a variety of methods retailers use to enhance sales. Some of these are obvious, such as placing sweetened cereal at a kid-friendly height, or surrounding the checkstand with cheap impulse items. But other techniques are more subtle. Fortunately, knowing what’s likely to make you buy can actually help you to avoid being suckered. Want to win the retail battle? Here are some easy changes you can make to reduce your spending.
The only fee-free day at national parks this summer is the first day of summer, Tuesday, June 21. All national parks and monuments that usually charge admission waive all entrance fees on this day, and several other dates throughout the year.
Overworked and poorly paid, today’s workers increasingly wish they could march up to the boss and drop the classic line, “Take this job and shove it.” Given high unemployment rates and the uncertainties in the economy, however, the mantra is more likely: Take any job and suck it up.
As traditional mortgage guidelines have tightened, the volume of reverse mortgages originated annually has increased 20-fold over the last decade. These mortgage giants were responsible for originating 43 percent of the nation’s reverse mortgages. Now they’ve left the business.
It’s a perfect storm for ice cream lovers: Because of factors including everything from droughts in Russia to rising prices of cattle feed, dairy products, and gas, the ice cream cone that used to run $3 or $4 is now likely to cost $5 or more this summer. And if your favorite flavor is pistachio, [...]
The Misery Index has just reached a 28-year high. But some Americans are a lot more miserable than others.
Everybody knows that if you’re a good driver, you’ll pay less for car insurance than a person with a history of fender benders. But there’s another less obvious factor that dictates your car insurance rates: your credit score.
The past few weeks in financial-land have been dominated by two combustible fears: 1.) that this time Greece really will default on its debts and plunge the Eurozone into chaos; and 2.) that this time China really will hit the brakes and bring much of global economic activity down with it. One of these fears [...]
On Thursday, the maker of the once-ubiquitous Blackberry devices, Research in Motion, reported its quarterly results. They were not pretty.
Saturday, June 18, is National Splurge Day. What, you’re probably asking, the heck is National Splurge Day?
