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I’ve written a lot — at TIME Moneyland and other sites — about the importance of taking charge of your own financial life. Nobody cares more about your money than you do. If you’re not willing to be smart with your money, you can’t expect others to do it for you.
In much the same way that outlet malls are booming due to a combo of a shaky economy and shaken consumers, retailers that cater to thrifty-minded shoppers have benefited during an era that’s been mostly bad for business. Here are 10 such stores.
They’re known as “FSBOs” — properties that are For Sale By Owner. Often, these homes are listed by property holders who want to save a real estate agent’s fee. So it was a sweet tale for every real estate agent to hear that Colby Sambrotto, one of the founders of Internet listing site FSBO.com, hired a real estate agent to sell his $2 million condo.
Even as school starts up again around the country, students may already be falling behind in one critical area of knowledge: How to choose and use credit cards. Unfortunately, until financial education is taught in high schools across America, students have to enter the world of consumer credit on their own. We talked to a [...]
Even if taxes were raised on the wealthiest Americans, it’s highly likely that the amount would barely put a dent in the nation’s debt picture.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a report on Monday that shows America is chipping away at its collective debt — but slowly. According to the Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, overall consumer debt was down by $50 billion at the end of June. If that seems like a lot, it’s [...]
According to the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize laureate, you know what would end the economic slump in 18 months? Aliens.
The soaring Swiss Franc offers an important lesson for long-term stock investors.
With Wall Street in chaos, IPO candidates are forced to play a waiting game.
Stores like American Apparel and Abercrombie & Fitch have gotten bad press for allegedly discriminating in their hiring by only choosing hot employees. But a new study shows that good-looking shoppers can be problematic for retailers, too.
The New York Times Opinionator blog has a rather doting feature on More Than Wheels, a New Hampshire-based non-profit that sets people with bad credit up with low-interest car loans. But there are a few problems with this program that I would consider to be common myths about car buying.
