5 Steps To Improving Communication "Communication is the lifeline of relationships. The health of any relationship is determined by the quality of the conversations between or among the people involved." S. DeKoven Ph.D Like the heart in the human body, I believe that communication in ...
5 Tips For Savvy Use Of Your Home Equity Line Of Credit Tapping your home’s equity to pay college expenses, consolidate credit card debt or even to buy a new car or boat is common place. Many economists attribute the additional buying power afforded consumers through home equity debt as a primary reason the ...
7 Things To Teach Your Kids About Money Did you know that many people retire broke? It's true. After a lifetime of hard work and having earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars, they end up with nothing. So where did all their hard-earned cash go? The answer is, it passed right through ...
7 Tips To Increase Your Credit Score Having a high credit score can mean the difference of thousands of dollars of saved interest expense compared to others with a lower score. For example, if you improve credit score results from the credit bureaus, just a few points that increase your ...
9 Ways To Outsmart An Identity Thief Identity theft statistics are shocking, to say the least. And it's not going to get better any time soon. But there is no need for you to become a statistic. Here is what you can do to avoid identity theft. 1. If your mail box doesn't have a lock yet, ...
About consumer credit If you do not understand consumer credit, you will be far more likely to misuse credit, and ruin your financial situation. That is why the subject of consumer credit is so important.A lot of people get their first experience with consumer credit when they ...
Accountability? Mutual Funds Must Come Clean the SEC should deal directly with fund managers' conflicts of interest by requiring funds to disclose the fees they earn from companies in which they invest and highlight the votes they cast in support of the management of those companies The most ...
Advantages of Low-Cost Mutual Funds A common misconception about mutual funds is that pretty much any reputable fund will do. Of course, any investment that produces a solid return for you is better than nothing, but not all funds are created equal. When you buy a mutual fund, you'll pay a ...
Adverse debt levels blight UK consumers personal finances Debt levels are at an all time high in the UK. The younger generation tend to be feeling the pinch the most, but parents are increasingly being required to bail them out, often at great expense to their own limited mortgage or retirement savings.It has ...
African Americans: A Look in the Mirror, Part 1 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”James BaldwinAt present, African Americans stand at the crossroads of great hopes for wealth and freedom exceptional for the great-and great, great-grandchildren ...
African Americans: A Look in the Mirror, Part 2 “For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”James 1:23-24The black community has many ...
African American Women Get No Respect at Work Recently, an article published in the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business newsletter began with the following statement: "By choosing self-employment over working for a TV station or network - she [Oprah Winfrey] began her career as a ...
Alliance turning towards the financial dark side Following in the footsteps of many of its high street competitors, Alliance and Leicester has announced that it will no longer accept new customers onto its Online Saver and Direct ISA accounts. The interest rate for the Online Savers account is also ...
All about trademarks How are they used, and how do I get one for my company?While it is sometimes confused with general copyright or patent laws, the trademark is a very specific type of patent law. Trademarks are marks, words, or letter-number combinations that are used to ...
“Anticipating” Your IRS Refund Can Cost You Plenty While accountants are reaching for aspirin, millions of Americans are reaching for some fast cash this tax season. Unfortunately, those who reach for fast cash in the form of a “refund anticipation loan” are getting hit with interest rates and fees that ...
Mutual Funds & Personal Finance Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - 12 hours ago BY PAUL KATZEFF Wait and see. That's the posture held in November by more than four out of five institutional fund managers polled for Merrill Lynch's ...
Federal pilot program aimed at financial literacy BusinessWeek - 18 hours ago "We are in a national teachable moment for personal finance," Iannicola said. Thousands of people in the St. Louis region don't have bank or credit union ...
More Personal Finance Daily stories MarketWatch - Nov 18, 2008 "A good contrarian, though, will note that just when things look darkest is where we usually find the turning point." We're just getting started. ...
Economics proves profitable Bethany Beach Wave, DE - 3 hours ago "With today's economic condition, it is essential that our students graduate with an understanding of personal finance," Konyar said. ...
Some presidential appointments are no plums MarketWatch - 20 hours ago Other potential candidates - AFL-CIO lawyer Damon Silvers, CBOE chief executive William Brodsky, investment manager and personal finance commentator Mellody ...
