Personal Finance
Why Don’t We Know the Truth Behind Gas Prices?
If you google “reasons behind high gas prices” you’ll get about a thousand different answers. High state or federal taxes, supply, demand, OPEC, President Bush, oil companies, Wall Street speculation… the list goes on.
And to be quite honest, I’m not sure who to believe. The republicans are using the issue to push for […]
Sell Stuff on eBay? You May Now HAVE To Pay Taxes.
Within Senator Christopher Dodd’s 630-page Senate housing legislation is a provision that nobody knows about, but affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate this week, would require the nation’s payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly […]
Is Preventing Identity Theft Impossible?
Well, if we’ve learned anything this week it’s that keeping your identity safe isn’t helped by posting your social security number on billboards and magazine ads all over the country.
Two years ago, Todd Davis, the founder of LifeLock, decided to plaster his Social Security number wherever he could get ad space. For a fee of […]
10 Lessons to Teach Your Kids About Money
This article is a few months old but I have neglected to mention it here. 10 Lessons to Teach Your Kids About Money is a great article from ZenHabits.net about, well, lessons to teach your kids about money.
I especially recommend reading #10 - Teach them about impulse buying and #2 - Teach them to […]
How a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Will Save You Money
After a year at my new job the benefit enrollment season just opened again, and I made one change to by benefits that I hadn’t ever done before - I signed up for a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
For those of you that don’t know, a Flexible Spending Account allows an employee to set […]
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