Archive for February, 2008
If you, like me, are a nine-to-fiver and a part-time entrepreneur, the IRS is not going to congratulate you for your hard work, but they will take their cut. Did your side-gig take a loss [...]
February 28th, 2008. . Read More »
You might wonder what Starbucks closing 7,100 stores tonight has to do with personal finance, other than the fact it might save you $4 if you happen to crave a latte this evening. Well, if [...]
February 26th, 2008. . Read More »
Americans are not saving money. Our national personal savings rate has been less than 1% since 2005, when our savings rate was actually negative; its lowest point since the Great Depression. If we are not [...]
February 26th, 2008. . Read More »
I’m no tax expert, nor do I want to be, but as my taxes get more complicated, I do want to make sure I don’t give more of my money to Uncle Sam than I [...]
February 25th, 2008. . Read More »
Recently I wrote about how I ran up against my American Express charge card’s mysterious spending limit. Well I did it again, and after a phone call with Amex, I can shed even more light [...]
February 19th, 2008. . Read More »
I don’t know about you, but I have a problem. I am ambitious; I am full of great ideas. I am also, however, extremely undisciplined. But the other day I had an idea. What if [...]
February 15th, 2008. . Read More »
Starting today, a full content RSS feed for Money Under 30 is available! I know partial content feeds are pretty much useless these days…the point of using a reader in the first place is to [...]
February 11th, 2008. . Read More »
Jeff writes: I’m about $5500 in credit card debt that I want to get out of before I go back to school in August. I’m thinking of taking up these offers for low interest [...]
February 11th, 2008. . Read More »
It seems like only a year ago I was lamenting the absence of innovative web-based personal budgeting tools. Today we have Mint.com and Geezeo.com, and even Quicken has launched an online budgeting product. While these [...]
February 8th, 2008. . Read More »
With the economy faltering, more Americans are paring down their spending. At the least, Americans are starting to buy only what they can afford. Could the next few years become the age of Americans saying [...]
February 5th, 2008. . Read More »
